Head Over Heels in the Dales by Gervase Phinn

Author:Gervase Phinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Peace, peace, she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet,

All my life’s buried here,

Heap earth upon it.

There followed an animated and intelligent discussion of the poem, in which the whole class joined, the teacher occasionally interrupting to clarify a point, ask a probing question, challenge a view or offer a comment. She was positive, encouraging, good humoured and moved the discussion along at a good pace.

The next student had picked an equally melancholy piece of verse, ‘Requiem’ by Robert Louis Stevenson. She recited it with superb timing:

Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

This is the verse you grave for me:

‘Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.’

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