Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-14
Changing Wears.

iWfitten for the camp Fire Department by
r. Roberts, NJ D., Of Evansville, Wis.
WASHINGTON, our first President,
To us his talents and money lent,
As all who read may know.
In Church and state or banquet hall
Ills memory we to-day recall
OF the msny years ago.
We celehra one hundred years
OF Joys untold, but mixed with tears
Our first Inauguration.
How many changes have come and gone,
Yet this day finds us moving Oh
With our Constitution.
We boast that we are free-born men,
And shout il DER and DER again,
And make a hue and cry"
The time now H. for us TO pause
And think upon the changeless laws
Given us from on high.
To everlasting they are the same, =
And Gods promises we can claim
IL faithful we abide.
Let us anew resolve this dav,
Due homage to our Maker pay.
And let His spirit guide.
Our fathers brave, not long ago, 81.
Many hardships did fcrc.o,
Their freedom TO possess;
And left their native shores behind,
A better country here TO find,
Where Kings could not Cypress.
Behold those giant forest trees.
With branches moving in the breeze,
4 houndleSS sea OF leaves.
Ere Ion. those trees hal fallen low
And teams were passing to and fro
Amidst field of sheaves.
As time and hard,hips onward sped,
our fathers did our mothers Wrd
nd reared their families largo.
The girls were taught II was sin
Not to know how to card and spin,
And Of the house take charge.
The boys were taught 10 grub and chop
And from the soil TO raise crop
OF potatoes, corn and beans.
The girls and boys grew on apace,
And neck to neck did run thu race
To live within their means.
God blessed them in their honest toll,
And kept thcm from internal broil,
4 united stalwart band.
Ere long their sky was clouded Ger,
Their freedom was a,>iiIed once more
In this their new-found land.
Old England lords. with tyrant sway,
In horrid war and dire array,
struck down Our slreS brave
But brighter DAYS were on the wing.
Nor England's might, nor England's king,
our COulu tHsldNts
The Indian hunter, Natures child,
Then roaming free this western wild.
Was rudely swept away;
The white man drove hiS game afar
With AK. and pillow, and railroad car
The red man could not stay.
A Quaker lady, devoid Of brag,
Designed for us our ensign tlag
To float DER land and sea;
And now our sisters humbly ask
The right TO help us In our task
To keep this country free.
How soon do men forgcttul grow
OF Grandma's deeds, OF long ago,
And mothers holy name.
our sisters work a. much ~ We,
Yet like 0s, they cannot see
This boosted freedom shame.
Intcmperance is in our land.
Casting fetterS upon every hand,
The God accurScd woe!
And unless there are many found
Who trust in God for reason sound,
Our freedom sure Will CO.
Let this sovereign rise like men
And drive the demon Ia his den;
For conquer sure we must.
Lest we like Israel OF old
Barter ourselves for paltry gold,
Forgetting whom we trust.
As nation, were lacking most
And are incl too much 10 boast
OF liberty and freedom.
We'd much better all work and pray
For God to guide in HIS own way,
Asking mercy and pardon.
O God, speed on the glorious day
When we can all truthfully say,
our land--our blessed land is free
From every kind of slavery.
And then another century gone
Wei still burr.th for WAsHINGTON.