A PRESIDENT AT HOME.[1]
I passed a President's House to-day———
"A President, mamma, and what is that?"
Oh, it is a man who has to stay
Where bowing beggars hold out the hat
For something: a man who has to be
The Captain of every ship that we
Send with our darling flag to the sea:
The Colonel at home who has to command
"A President, mamma, and what is that?"
Oh, it is a man who has to stay
Where bowing beggars hold out the hat
For something: a man who has to be
The Captain of every ship that we
Send with our darling flag to the sea:
The Colonel at home who has to command
Each marching regiment in the land.
This President now has a single room,
That is low and not much lighted, I fear;
Yet the butterflies play in the sun and gloom
Of his evergreen avenue, year by year;
This President now has a single room,
That is low and not much lighted, I fear;
Yet the butterflies play in the sun and gloom
Of his evergreen avenue, year by year;
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- ↑ At North Bend, Ohio River—the tomb of General William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States of America.
