Bowery

Dalam rangka merayakan ulang tahun SMA Semesta Bilingual Boarding School, kami selaku OSIS SMA Semesta bermaksud mengundang siswa – siswi SMP atau sederajat untuk menghadiri Semesta English Competition dengan Tema “ Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself” yang diselenggarakan bagi siswa SMP se-Semarang dan sekitarnya.

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at this loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, into which we doom Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me, In sundry moods, ’twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found. Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (Pearson, 2006)

I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and histories, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way — the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man.