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diff --git a/26626.txt b/26626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f8ed86 --- /dev/null +++ b/26626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,782 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point, by +Maria L. Stewart + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point + Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' + Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January + 1, 1879 + +Author: Maria L. Stewart + +Release Date: September 15, 2008 [EBook #26626] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR LITTLE BROWN HOUSE *** + + + + +Produced by K Nordquist, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: Our Little Brown House. (cover)] + + + + +Our +Little Brown +House. + + + + +OUR LITTLE BROWN HOUSE; + +A Poem of West Point. + + +WRITTEN FOR THE NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL AT THE CADETS' SABBATH-SCHOOL +OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, + + +JANUARY 1, 1879, + + +AND READ ON THAT OCCASION BY +THE AUTHORESS, (M. L. S.) + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK: +PUBLISHED BY F. KALKHOFF, JR. + +1880. + + + + +Copyright, by MARIA L. STEWART, 1880. + +THE MOSS ENGRAVING CO., +Engravers and Printers, +NEW YORK. + + + + +PREFACE. + + +_These poems were prepared merely with the hope of interesting the +members of the Sabbath-School before whom they were read, and were not +intended for publication. At the urgent request of many friends, +however, I have been induced to present them to the public in their +present form._ + + _M. L. S._ + + + + +CONTENTS + +OUR LITTLE BROWN HOUSE. +SUPPLEMENT. +GRAND CELEBRATION. + + +[Illustration: OUR LITTLE BROWN HOUSE. +(Drawn by William Erwin.)] + + + + +OUR LITTLE BROWN HOUSE. + + +There's a little brown house just under the hill; +It's not by the river, nor yet by a rill; +It's not on the green-sward where the gay and proud meet, +But it stands on the corner of Bandbarrack's street. + +This time-honored veteran, in armor complete, +Has stood many winters the storm and the sleet-- +The early spring rains and the long summer heat, +The wear and the tear of a great many feet. + +It's a very small building, and plain in its way; +No high-toned paintings, not a thing that is gay; +It was built of the gun-house of Col Thayer fame, +During the years of the Delafield reign. + +Then came Captain B.--he thought it all wrong +That such a small house should hold such a throng; +So out went the walls, up went the roof, +And thus it was altered and made large enough. + +Then again it was altered, with the door to the south, +Which did very well in time of a drought; +Then Lieutenant G., he thought it to better-- +He changed it a little, but not to the letter. + +It was painted without and papered within; +The roof now is shingles, then it was tin. +Next came Colonel B., a thrifty man-- +He too had to lend a helping hand. + +So down went the stove and up went a heater, +A thing which, indeed, was very much neater. +Again it's been altered, just right, it's confess't, +For the door has gone back again into the west. + +[Illustration: PRESENTING "SPOONEY BUTTON." +(Sketched by Cadet Cameron. Class of '83.)] + +The east end's been paneled, and looks very good; +The door has been covered with a very nice hood; +And thus it's been altered again and again; +This time it was altered to keep off the rain. + +This little brown house, so dear to each heart, +So famous in history, so free from all art-- +Our hearts with emotion always will thrill +When we think of the chapel under the hill. + +But where are the loved ones we met here of yore? +Their forms and their faces we'll see nevermore; +Their loud, cheery laugh and swift-coming feet +No more in the Sabbath-school ever to greet. + +Some have launched out on the world's busy tide, +Some have got married, some have died, +Some on the frontier, wading through strife, +With the musketry's rattle and the wild scalper's knife. + +Some by the camp-fires, with their minds on the rack, +Eating salt pork with a little hard-tack, +Wading through snow or fording a river, +Or asleep on the ground without any cover. + +From the falls of Missouri, with its loud, maddening roar, +To the slopes of Pacific, an ever-green shore, +To the Atlantic Ocean, with a coast sand-bound, +There some of my boys are sure to be found. + +To the northward, to the westward, and fair, sunny south, +Like the dove with the olive-branch of peace in its mouth, +Thus they've gone forth their garlands to weave, +When they get through they'll return with the sheaves. + +Some on the Lone Star, quite at their ease, +Eating their rations, doing just as they please, +Basking in sunshine among the sweet flowers, +Whiling away the long, tedious hours. + +[Illustration: KOSCIUSZKO GARDEN.] + +From the St. Lawrence River to the Rio Grande, +From Puget's Sound to Maine's cold sand, +O'er the hilltops, through the valleys, never to lag, +Not a spot on this land but they've planted the flag. + + * * * * * + + The old village people--where are they, + That in the chapel met to pray? + The stalwart man and maiden mild, + The matron and the little child, + + The son and sire side by side, + As to the village church they hied-- + Some are gone and sweetly rest, + With their white hands folded on their breast. + + Under the violet and the rose, + The autumn leaves and winter snows, + On the banks of the Hudson there to sleep, + While the moon and stars their vigils keep. + + The man of God, with modest mien, + With faltering steps and looks serene, + As to the sacred desk they knelt + And poured forth what their spirits felt, + + Their hearts went up with pure desire, + While on the altar burned the fire; + A few still linger on the shore. + Veterans of a holy war. + +May this little brown house, of good constitution, +Built on the classic grounds of the old Revolution, +The Stars and the Stripes, the blue and cadet grey, +Be the last things to perish when time's passed away. + + + + +SUPPLEMENT. + +_Lines addressed to the Fourth Class of '78-'79._ + + +To the young gentlemen that are here with us now-- +To you and the rest I make my best bow. +Now listen, young men; take heed what I say; +Your time is coming, it's not far away. + +Be true to your trust and your old Alma Mater; +Lean firm on that arm, you'll need nothing better: +And to the young gentlemen of the Tenth Section, +Flee to the Fourth--in it there's protection. + +Perhaps that will do, but the Ninth, I am told, +Will send the young gentlemen out in the cold. +There are three honest men of old cadet fame-- +Phil, Math and Chem, I think is their name. + +[Illustration: FLIRTATION PATH. +(Photographed by G. W. Pack.)] + +These three honest fellows are all very bold, +And are sure to kick somebody out of the fold; +Then off goes the trimmings, and away goes the grey, +And then you are told to get out of the way. + +Then you'll think of Flirtation and old Gee's rock, +And the place where you sat with your Sweet Four O'clock; +Then you'll think of the taffy made over the gas, +Of the butter and sugar you hived from the mess. + +Now when to the blackboard for trial you stand, +Keep steady, be ready, your chalk in your hand. +Don't think of failing; stand well on your ground; +Don't let it be said--a man has been found. + + * * * * * + +This poem is respectfully dedicated to the Corps of Cadets, by + + THEIR MATERNAL FRIEND. + + +[Illustration: THE BARRACKS. +(Photographed by G. W. Pack.)] + + + + +GRAND CELEBRATION. + +_With Pyrotechnic Lights, at the Military Academy, by Santa Claus, +12 o'clock, 1880._ + + +Hark! what's that that bursts on the midnight air? +"The Cadets are loose," said a lady fair. +"Cadets loose?" echoed her puzzled spouse, +As he rose in haste and donned his clothes. + +From "Siege Gun Battery" came a roar +That echoed back from shore to shore, +Rumbling along under old Cro' Nest, +And sunk in the far-off hills to rest. + +Just at this juncture came pouring forth +From every window in the north +Of the Barrack building grim and gray, +And chased the moonbeams out of the way, + +The grandest sight that ever was seen, +Or ever will be again, I ween,-- +Rockets, Roman Candles and Blue Lights clear, +To welcome in the glad New Year. + +With the booming of cannon and grand "fish-horn" +Eighteen hundred and eighty was born; +This fine little fellow was ushered in +With rocket's roar and fish-horn's din. + +What means this noise and running around, +Looking for something that's not to be found? +For every door was relieved of its handle +By some friend, of course, surely not by a vandal, + +To keep intruders who were stalking around +From wakening the boys who were sleeping so sound, +Dreaming of fish-horns and other such things +That Santa Claus always to the children brings. + +[Illustration: THE COLOR GUARD. +(By Cadet Cameron, Class of '83.)] + +Just at this moment came a loud crash-- +A window is broken in with a smash, +And a voice calls out, "Bring me an axe!" +And on his near neighbor he levied the tax. + +I'll let him see, thought the neighbor, who'll lift the latch, +As he handed him out the innocent match; +The reason was this, St. Nick had been busy an hour or more, +And that was the reason he'd fastened the door. + +'Tis the midnight hour; the Long Roll has beat, +And brought every boy in a jiff to his feet, +In the area of the Barracks, on the cold, damp ground, +And not a delinquent is to be found, + +Except the little fellow who was locked in his room +By some naughty boy, and of course could not come. +From the hall-ways came running, all loose to be sure, +Every boy, in a hurry his place to secure, + +And there on the cold ground, in the night air to stand, +While the searchers were looking for things contraband. +In a room two Rockets were picked up by a scout, +That Santa Claus dropped as he made his way out. + +While up in the cockloft, so cosy and snug, +Lay the old brass cannon, like a "bug in a rug," +Where Santa Claus left it to be raised up higher, +And then, after all, the old thing hung fire. + +What can be the matter? what's all this about? +That every boy from his bed is turned out +In the night air to shiver and freeze, +With nought on his feet but his old Reveilles? + +There to wait for a long half hour +Still as the bell in the old clock tower; +The scouts and the searchers have all done their best, +And the boys are allowed to return to their rest, + +[Illustration: MAKING TAFFY AFTER TAPS. +(Sketched by Cadet Hall, Class of '83.)] + +And all tumble into their little cot beds, +While visions of "Calling Day" float through their heads, +Sleeping and snoring like other good boys, +For Santa Claus had filled all their stockings with toys. + +But lo! from the roof comes a thundering noise, +Loud enough to waken all of the boys; +That old brass cannon had crept out of its lair, +In the Grand Celebration determined to share. + +From the roof of the Barracks dark and gray +The old brass cannon blazed away, +Waking the neighbors far and near, +To let them know there was nothing to fear; + +For old St. Nick had done his work, +And into his sleigh had skipped with a jerk; +And calling by name each tiny reindeer, +As he rode out of sight he cried "Happy New Year." + + * * * * * + +Dedicated to all the "Boys" who took part in the "Grand Celebration," by + + SANTA CLAUS. + + + + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Minor typographical errors have been corrected. 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