IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY COLLEGE – PARAÑAQUE

Forming the character….Reforming the will….Transforming the heart!

PAASCU LEVEL II

BASIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

School Year 2020 – 2021

Self-Paced Activity #5

Name: Date:
Teacher: Gr. & Sec:

I. Directions: As part of our lesson this week, read and understand the poem below.

THE NAHOON
William Charles Scully

Where the breath of the ocean encumbers

The air with its languorous balm,
And weaves o'er the forest that slumbers
The spell of its health-giving calm;
There the spirit of Peace hath its dwelling,
And, rich round the wanderer's feet,
In the groves where clear waters are welling,
The dream-fragrant lotus blooms sweet.

The lagoon like a scimitar gleaming

In the conqueror ocean's strong hand,
Pierces through the bright hills that, a-dreaming,
Through seasons and centuries stand;
Whilst the tide, with its message of greeting,
Sweeps up from the surf to the rills,
And the murmurous joy of their meeting
The valley with melody fills.

Here each season, like spring, is a revel

Of flower and sunshine and song,
And leads to the banquet its novel
Delights in a wildering throng;
As a pageant of beauty, with guerdon
Of richness to spirit and sense,
Come the days bearing hither their burden
Of sweets for the hours to dispense.
 Down rocks that the lichen makes hoary,
The garlanded tendril-blooms trail
To the woods where the wing of the lory
The scarlet geranium strikes pale;
O'er the aloe the honey-birds quiver
Like emeralds, feathered with flame,
While the kingfisher's plunge sends a shiver
Of light through the depths of the stream.

Sweet orchids, in shadow reposing,

Sigh scents on the path of the bee;
Bright lilies in splendour enclosing,
Woo butterflies over the lea;
Soft moss, for a dryad fit pillow,
Droops thick over tree-trunk and stone
In the depths of each fern-brimming hollow,
Where the moistening sea's breath is blown.

O'er a league of fair woodland and meadow,

Rich in flower and grass and soft fern,
Where the antelope couches in shadow,
And the curlew pipes over the tarn,
Lie the infinite waters of wonder,
Man's terror and scourge and delight—
That rave with the tempest in thunder,
Or laugh like a child in the light.

Here the silence at midnight is shattered

By the cry of the breakers in pain,
When the strength of their legion is scattered,
And their might is as curbed with a chain;
Here the snowstorms of foam, fierce as fire,
Shine bright 'neath the stars that they hide,
When the resonant surges retire
From the rock that their rage hath defied.

Yet the heart that is weary of beating

Finds here from its fever surcease,
And grief of compassion finds greeting
Where the war-song of waters is peace;
Where the roar of the strife-smitten world
Is drowned in the chant of the sea,
Lo! the banner of peace is unfurled,
And the soul in its thraldom is free.
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Charles Scully.

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