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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

At the Fireside

By John Davis Long (1838–1915)

AT nightfall by the firelight’s cheer

My little Margaret sits me near,

And begs me tell of things that were

When I was little, just like her.

Ah, little lips, you touch the spring

Of sweetest sad remembering;

And hearth and heart flash all aglow

With ruddy tints of long ago!

I at my father’s fireside sit,

Youngest of all who circle it,

And beg him tell me what did he

When he was little, just like me.