I hope some of you enjoy this and perhaps your grandchildren will have the same memories
A Poem by Edgar A Guest
Twas not so many years ago,
Say, Fifty two or three
When zero weather or below
Held a thrill for me.
Then in my icy room I slept
A youngsters sweet repose,
And always on my form I kept
My flannel underclothes.
Then I was roused by sudden shock
Though still to sleep I strove,
I knew that it was seven o'clock
When father shook the stove.
I never heard him quit his bed
Or his alarm clock ring;
I never heard his gentle tread,
Or his attempts to sing;
The sun that found my window pane
On me was wholly lost,
Though many a sunbeam tried in vain
To penetrate the frost.
To human vioce I never stirred
But deeper down I dove
Beneath the covers, when I heard
My father shake the stove.
Today it all comes back to me
And I can hear it still;
He seemed to take a special glee
In shaking with a will.
He flung the noisy dampers back,
They rattled steel on steel.
Until the force of his attack
The building seemed to feel.
Though I'd a youngsters heavy eyes
All sleep he drove from them.
It seemed to me the dead must rise
When father shook the stove.
Now radiators thump and pound
And every room is warm,
And modern men new ways have found
To sheild us from the storm.
The window panes are seldom glossed
The way they used to be;
The pictures left by old Jack Frost
Our children never see.
And now that he has gone to rest
In God's great slumber grove,
I often think those days were best
WHEN FATHER SHOOK THE STOVE.
Thinking Back
- Poconoeagle
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Man... that was really cool post thanks
- Hambden Bob
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- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
Beautiful!!.......Thanx Dad,for all of it. Thank You,Hophead!
- Hambden Bob
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
I'm thinking Freddy may put it in a frame with glass and hang it on the wall.....We'll be greated by it every weekend. Whatya say Freddy?