Thanksgiving-Day

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Title:     Thanksgiving-Day
Author: Carolyn Wells [More Titles by Wells]

When Autumn brings around the day
Devoted to thanksgiving,
The children scream with laughter gay
For very joy of living.

And every sort of escapade
Receives their commendation;
But all agree a masquerade
Is best for celebration.

The boys and girls all swarm around
The crowd is hourly growing;
Straw hatted and grotesquely gowned,--
With tin horns loudly blowing.

But dear old dames with snowy puffs,
Tulle caps and Mechlin laces,
Don't scramble out and join the toughs
In boys' clothes and false faces.

[The end]
Carolyn Wells's poem: Thanksgiving-Day

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