A LAY FROM THE OLDEN (?) TIME by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 46.

A LAY FROM THE OLDEN (?) TIME.

By Editor

[One of the great New England dishes, not wholly out of date, we venture to say, one of the most delicious and least harmful generally, of the many tempting edibles, was pumpkin pie. The following from Whittier's "Ode to the Pumpkin" is to the purpose.]

AH! on Thanksgiving day, when from east and from west,

From north and south, come the pilgrim and guest,

When the gray-haired New Englander sees 'round his board

The old broken links of affection restored,

When the care-wearied man sees his mother once more,

And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.

What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?

What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?