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好像那个strathfield的st patrick‘s college就是这首诗写的这个。
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St Patrick's college -Peter Skrzynecki
Impressed by the uniforms
Of her employer's sons,
Mother enrolled me at St Pat's
With never a thought
To fees and expenses - wanting only
"What was best".
From the roof
Of the secondary school block
Our Lady watched
With outstretched arms,
Her face overshadowed by clouds.
Mother crossed herself
As she left me at the office
Said a prayer
For my future intentions.
Under the principal's window
I stuck pine needles
Into the motto
On my breast:
Luceat Lux Vestra
I thought was a brand of soap.
For eight years
I walked Strathfield's paths and streets,
Playing chasings up and down
The station's ten ramps -
Caught the 414 bus
Like a foreign tourist,
Uncertain of my destination
Every time I got off.
For eight years
I carried the blue, black and gold
I'd been privileged to wear:
Learnt my conjugations
And Christian decorums for homework,
Was never too bright at science
But good at spelling;
Could say The Lord's Prayer
In Latin, all in one breath.
My last day there
Mass was offered up
For our departing intentions.
Our Lady still watching
Above, unchanged by eight years' weather.
With closed eyes
I fervently counted
The seventy-eight pages
Of my Venite Adoremus,
Saw equations I never understood
Rubbed off the blackboard,
Voices at bus stops, litanies and hymns
Taking the right-hand turn
Out of Edgar Street for good;
Prayed that Mother would someday be pleased
With what she'd got for her money -
That the darkness around me
Wasn't "for the best"
Before I let my light shine
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http://www.peterskrzynecki.com/biography.htm
In 1951 the family moved to Sydney, to the working-class suburb of Regents Park, where a home had been purchased at 10 Mary Street. Feliks Skrzynecki worked as a labourer for the Water Board and Kornelia as a domestic for a number of families in Strathfield. The parents worked hard and had the house paid off in four years. They grew their own vegetables and had a magnificent flower garden. Peter attended the local Catholic school,Saint Peter Chanel's and then, in 1956, began school at St Patrick's College, Strathfield, where he completed his Leaving Certificate in 1963. Brian Couch, his English teacher in those last years at school, engendered in him a love for literature.
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部分狗粮的总结----电梯放在第一楼 (2010-5-24) Sparky 
楼主:patrickzhu
发表于 2012-3-31 12:41
发表于 2012-3-31 12:51
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