さらばVIゼミ

今日がVIゼミ最後のゼミとなった。超人的な課題の山をものともせずに頑張り抜いた歴代のゼミ生諸君を讃えたい。
OGたちも駆けつけてくれ、にぎやかなゼミになった。写真はゼミのあと食事会をした時のもの。それから、この写真を撮ろうとしているときのある「事件」の現場写真⇒

ゼミの最中に配ったCloudsに加え、MacNeiceの作品もここに載せてゼミ生に贈ろう。

Soap suds

This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open
To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop
To rest at the head of a mallet held in the hands of a child.

And these were the joys of that house: a tower with a telescope;
Two great faded globes, one of the earth, one of the stars;
A stuffed black dog in the hall; a walled garden with bees;
A rabbit warren; a rockery; a vine under glass; the sea.

To which he has now returned. The day of course is fine
And a grown-up voice cries Play! The mallet slowly swings,
Then crack, a great gong booms from the dog-dark hall and the ball
Skims forward through the hoop and then through the next and then

Through hoops where no hoops were and each dissolves in turn
And the grass has grown head-high and an angry voice cries Play!
But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.