"Dear the people coming home,
Dear flad faces long away,
Dear the merry cries, and dear
All the glad and happy play,
Dear the thanks, too, that we give
For all of this Thanksgiving Day"
~~~ Harriet Prescott Spofford,
Every Thanksgiving Day,
in Poems, 1881
Dear flad faces long away,
Dear the merry cries, and dear
All the glad and happy play,
Dear the thanks, too, that we give
For all of this Thanksgiving Day"
~~~ Harriet Prescott Spofford,
Every Thanksgiving Day,
in Poems, 1881
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