THANKSGIVING ITS ORIGIN, CELEBRATION AND SIGNIFICANCE AS RE- LATED IN PROSE AND VERSE
EDITED BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD & COMPANY Copyright 1907 by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY Published September 1906 Reprinted April 1908
TO NOVEMBER - G. W. ADAMS
Hence, stern, grim, puritanic days,
With nonconformist spirit rife! I like not your forbidding ways,
Still less your austere mode of life.
Why will you no concessions make
To bluff old Winter's hearty cheer ?
If only for old age's sake,
He ought to be most welcome here.
Fair Summer's longing to display
Her latest finery you kill
By cloaking her in sombre gray;—
And spontaneity is still.
The sun makes evening sacrifice
Of all his former trappings proud.
See how he charges in a trice
Through straight and narrow gates of cloud!
Dissenting month of all the year !
When you have fairly taken wing, To skies less uniformly drear
My true Thanksgiving song I'll sing.
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