News From HONO RARY MEMBERS A poem for VE Day Thanks to the pandemic, the 75th anniversary of VE day was marked in unexpectedly muted fashion. Peter Cantrell, Head of English from 2002 to 2017, wrote this beautiful poem to reflect on a historic occasion.
Victory Day It’s balmy summer warmth and sun, Apt weather, you could say; The bunting’s out, and Union flags: Our streets are proud today.
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Eleven finds me standing mute, To honour lives withdrawn; Though cars offend the solemn air, I hear a bugler’s horn. This day in Nineteen Forty-Five Was World War Two’s VE: We’ll celebrate at two-arms’ length, For that’s the rule; we’ll see. Back then my parents partied too, The nation all as one: In teenage glee, and still unmet, Each laughed that war was won. The ethic of their age and class Equipped them well for war: Hard work, and thrift, and self-control, No clamouring for ‘more’.
LEAVERS
The Queen is billed to speak tonight, And then it’s Vera Lynn; We’ll meet again will echo loud, Our spirits lift within.
Jane Board
Deanne Mahony
Ella Carter
Enca Marza
Tessa Cawdron
Natasha Prince
Abigail Folleat
Lucy Suttle
Ben Gudgeon
Melissa Tillyer
Jane Hewitt
Georgina Toscani
Ros Johnson
Katelyn Walker
The message doesn’t change with time, It’s still that steadfast tune: Do not despair, do not give up, And make it through to June.
Our best wishes to the following members of the Sherborne Girls Community:
