Schoolboy Poet.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 15 December 1906, Page 30

Schoolboy Poet.

Charles Ives, a bright little boy at the Isleworth Spring Grove Council School, and a "chum** of the boy Coker, killed in the motor car accident at Hounslow, wrote the following verses in his desire to give his schoolfellows a lesson on the dangers of playing in the roads. Air. A. E. Pope, the headmaster, who read out the verses to the whole school by way of a lesson, said that Ives had written them without any advice or assistance:— How careless are you boys Tn going home from school; Hanging behind the carts Is quite a common rule. Of dangerous motor cars You take not any heed, • A<i<l dodging through the traffic, Is a very perilous deed. Jus* turn your minds to that poor lad, _\Xho. on his homeward wav, Got knocked down by a motor—'T was imt the other day. He’s loft a widowed mother * To face the world alone; And* what must be her 7 Now that her boy has 7 > . < < So keep to the place provideff l * 1 * “ For your safety and your good— That is the path, and not' the road? h So please do as you should. i.