BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 155, 4 July 1938, Page 7

BRITAIN'S YOUNGEST

FIVE-YEAR-OLD POET. COMPOSES WHILE IN BED. WRITES SONGS ABOUT GOD. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 14. Britain's joungest poet is the five year-old son of a Board of Kdwatioi officer. So remarkable are Jiis poem.that a selection of tliem lias been |>ul> lished. The young author is kept stricth anonymous "to protect him from am harmful effect of publicity."

The boy's mother, who uses the! pseudonym Doreen Bland, has edited 1 jthe selection of his work. The bov, says the preface, composes songs, which ■arc noted down eurreptitiouelv bv hie [parents. | Here is one of his poems: I am pleased I nm going home. Ilic trunks arc full „f paekedness: Have yoll , m1 „„. k ,.,i al | „, v stonebonts. My banana boat and (he little stone row-! in;; boat '.' I ; (jood-bye, ;rreat flapping; waves. ! jtJreen waves crossing on.- another Anil painting one another with spray. ' '•From the age of four." writes his! ! .mother, "my son has sllliyr when he is! .alone in bed in the morning, or when! jwalking with, but detached from his! Iparents." I 'j This is one of hi* "«ongs" describing! jOod is so hijr. so hi«h. •j-\ liner is only tftj bit,' as a milk jug Ivine' • j down ; ' * * * .To Him I 'The Pacific Ocean is as wide as a salt cupJ