Tehmill
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On February 23 1944 Anne Frank made this entry in her diary.
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...from my favourite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree upon whose branches little raindrops shine appearing like silver and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this is so, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless sky, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.
The Totton Linnet has written a poem in remembrance of Anne.
My Chestnut tree (tomorrow I am free)
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This my chosen spot
I may lay me down
gaze can only upwards be
filled afresh with hope
which grew upon my chestnut tree
Tomorrow I am free
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No clouds in my sky
nor shadow troub'ling me
gracfully glides the seagulls
silvering droplets
sparkle from my chestnut tree
tomorrow I am free
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As long as this is so
and if my eyes may see
my heart cannot then be sad
for me the sun is shining
brightly through my chestnut tree
tomorrow I am free.
*
...from my favourite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree upon whose branches little raindrops shine appearing like silver and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this is so, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless sky, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.
The Totton Linnet has written a poem in remembrance of Anne.
My Chestnut tree (tomorrow I am free)
*
This my chosen spot
I may lay me down
gaze can only upwards be
filled afresh with hope
which grew upon my chestnut tree
Tomorrow I am free
*
No clouds in my sky
nor shadow troub'ling me
gracfully glides the seagulls
silvering droplets
sparkle from my chestnut tree
tomorrow I am free
*
As long as this is so
and if my eyes may see
my heart cannot then be sad
for me the sun is shining
brightly through my chestnut tree
tomorrow I am free.