Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
At the Fireside
By John Davis Long (18381915)[Born in Buckfield, Me., 1838. Died in Hingham, Mass., 1915.]
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My little Margaret sits me near,
And begs me tell of things that were
When I was little, just like her.
Of sweetest sad remembering;
And hearth and heart flash all aglow
With ruddy tints of long ago!
Youngest of all who circle it,
And beg him tell me what did he
When he was little, just like me.