OLD-TIME PICTURES UTHOK AND SHEAVES OF RHYME. OF SONGS OF YESTERDAY, THE WORLD ON WHEELS, 4 BETWEEN THE GATES, Etc - 1881 - We will watch ior 2 roof with a slope down behinci. For a chimney as broad as thc- curb of a wcll For a ncighborlg porch with the brow of a Creel For n rusty-gray curb, round a ruggctl stone .ell, Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 18, b S. C. GRIGGS IYr CO.lPAN-, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washingtca. TO HER FOR WHOM TWENTY YEARS HAVE NOT DIMMED THE MEMORY OF THAT LONG-GONE DAY, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS ILLUSTRATIONS. OLD - TIME PICTURE, - - - - Frontispiece. PACK. PREFACE. SET adrift in the newspapers, like thistle -down in the Fall wind, a few poems of mine have lodged at last between the lids of a book. Never thinking seriously about it until it was too late to think at all, I find myself fearing that their meaning to me is a sort of personal property I cannot make over to anybody, and that I should have slipped them in among the leaves of the Fanlily Record, be- tween the book of Malachi and the Gospel accordiiig to St. hlatthew, as being the very place in a world of sinners about the safest from perusal. A friend once sent me soine withered pansies, hut he brightened and humanized the faded things by writing a single line From the grave of Hamlet, Prince of Dennlark. Ah, how beautiful they turned, and what treasures they became Less fortunate than the pansies, this sheaf of rhymes has nobody to write the single line. Only this 1 sus- pect one or two of them of being better than I once thought, because several clever people have stolen and never returned them. THE SHEAF. PAGE. AN OLD-TIME PICTURE - - I3 THE CHILD AND THE STAR - -38 THE SHEAF. PAGE. THE SEW CRAFT IK THE OFFING - - 124 HE VAXE OS THE SPIRE - - - 127 DECOKATIOS DAY - - - - 132 X INTEK SALI - - - I35 SAILISG OF COLUIBUS - THE CIIRYSAIIS - - - - 141 - 142 IHI FLAG - - - - - 143 THE IERO 01 SE HAMBURG - - - - 144 THE GOSPEL OF THE OAK - - - - 151 THE TWO JOHSS - HEATIFUI, AIxu - TIIE NORTHERN LIGHTS - ISDIAN SUAIIER - SHE SHATTERED - - - - - - - - - I54 - 15s - - 160 - - 161 RAIXBOV - - - 162 FIRE ASD TATER - - 163 TI, ANTIC - - 167 CAVALRY CHARGE - - - - 17-1 FORT DEARBORN - - - 176 THE 1s1.x OF THE I, ONG AGO - - - - ISS THE ROSE AXU THE ROBIN - - - 191. AN OLD - TIME .PICTURE. JULY 4TH, 1776 -JULY 4TH, 1873. 4 T us roll back the world on its, axle of fire, LELet us halt, if we can, just a breath or two nigher The sweet simple time -firhen they halved every trouble, Ere pillks were carnations and roses all double We will watch for a roof with a slope down behind, Like a sun -bonnet blown partly off by the wind, Till the tresses of brown turn to gold one by one, As they sliake out of shadow ailcl shine in the sun - For a cllinnep as broad as the curb of a well Where the einber-red maple leaves eddied ancl fell, That volcanic plumed up with its volumes of silioke That were crinisoil and gold when day brightened and broke - la