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Ballads
By Horatio Alger, Jr.
1875
Contents.
BALLADS.
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving
St. Nicholas

Barbara's Courtship
The Confession
Rose in the Garden
Phoebe's

Wooing
The Lost Heart
John Maynard
Friar Anselmo
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
In the Church at Stratford-on-Avon

Mrs. Browning's Grave at Florence
My Castle
Apple-Blossoms

Summer Hours
June
Little Charlie
The Whippoorwill and I

Carving a Name
IN TIME OF WAR.
Gone to the War
Where is my Boy To-night?

A Soldier's Valentine
Last Words
Song of the Croaker
King
Cotton
Out of Egypt
The Price of Victory
HARVARD ODES.
I. Fair Harvard, Dear Guide of Our Youth's
Golden Days
II. As We Meet in Thy Name, Alma Mater, Tonight

III. Fair Harvard, The Months Have Accomplished Their Round IV.
there's a Fountain of Fable, Whose Magical Power
OCCASIONAL ODES.
Bi-Centennial Ode
For the Consecration
of a Cemetery
BALLADS.
GRAND'THER BALDWIN'S THANKSGIVING
UNDERNEATH protected branches, from the highway just aloof;
Stands the house of Grand'ther Baldwin, with its gently sloping roof.
Square of shape and solid-timbered, it was standing, I have heard, In
the days of Whig and Tory, under royal George the Third.
Many a time, I well remember, I have gazed with Childish awe At the
bullet-hole remaining in the sturdy oaken door,
Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled) Of
the lurking, savage foeman from whose musket it was sped..
Not far off, the barn, plethoric with the autumn's harvest spoils, Holds
the farmer's well-earned trophies--the guerdon of his toils;

Filled the lofts with hay, sweet-scented, ravished from the meadows
green, While beneath are stalled the cattle, with their quiet, drowsy
mien.
Deep and spacious are the grain-bins, brimming o'er with nature's gold;
Here are piles of yellow pumpkins on the barn-floor loosely rolled.
Just below in deep recesses, safe from wintry frost chill,
There are
heaps of ruddy apples from the orchard the hill.
Many a year has Grand'ther Baldwin in the old house dwelt in peace,
As his hair each year grew whiter, he has seen his herds increase.
Sturdy sons and comely daughters, growing up from childish plays,
One by one have met life's duties, and gone forth their several ways.
Hushed the voice of childish laughter, hushed is childhood's merry tone,
the fireside Grand'ther Baldwin and his good wife sit alone.
Turning round half-apprehensive (recking not how time had fled) Of
the lurking savage foeman from whose musket it was sped.
Not far off, the barn, plethoric with the autumn harvest spoils, Holds
the farmer's well-earned trophies--the guerdon of his toils;
Filled the lofts with hay, sweet-scented, ravished from the meadows
green, While beneath are stalled the cattle, with their quiet drowsy
mien.
Deep and spacious are the grain-bins, brimming o'er with nature's gold;
Here are piles of yellow pumpkins on the barn-floor loosely rolled.
Just below in deep recesses, safe from wintry frost and chill, There are
heaps of ruddy apples from the orchard on the hill.
Many a year has Grand'ther Baldwin in the old house dwelt in peace,
As his hair each year grew whiter, he has seen his herds increase.
Sturdy sons and comely daughters, growing up from childish plays,

One by one have met life's duties, and gone forth their several ways.
Hushed the voice of childish laughter, hushed is childhood's merry tone,
By the fireside Grand'ther Baldwin and his good wife sit alone.
Yet once within the twelvemonth, when the days are short and drear,
And chill winds chant the requiem of the slowly fading year,
When the autumn work is over, and the harvest gathered in,
Once
again the old house echoes to a long unwonted din.