THE LITTLE TOWNS, By HILDA MORRIS

Sprague's Journal of Maine History
No.  I
Vol.  VII
MAY JUNE JULY 1919
pages 19


THE LITTLE TOWNS
By HILDA MORRIS

Oh, little town in Arkansas and little town in Maine,
And little, sheltered valley town and hamlet on the plain,
Salem, Jackson, Waukesha, and Brookville and Peru
San Mateo and Irontown, and Lake and Waterloo,
Little town we smiled upon and loved for simple ways,
Quiet streets and garden beds and friendly sunlit days,
Out of you the soldiers came,
Little town of homely name
Young and strong and brave with laughter
They saw truth and followed after.

Little town, the birth of them
Makes you kin to Bethlehem.

Little town where Jimmy Brown ran the grocery store;
Little town where Manuel fished along the shore;
Where Russian Steve was carpenter, and sandy Pat McQuade
Worked all day in overalls at his mechanic's trade;
Where Allen Perkins practiced law, and John, Judge Harper's son:
Planned a little house for two that never shall be done-
Little town, you gave them all,
Rich and poor, and great and small;
Bred them clean and straight and strong,
Sent them forth to right the wrong.
Little town, their glorious death
Makes you kin to Nazareth!

-From the Come-Back

Courtesy of Androscoggin Historical Society
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