Iron County Record | 1935-01-17 | Page 2 | Around the Dining Room Table

Around the Dining Room Table By Dy ANNE CAMPBELL HOUND the dining room table A ABOUND A brown head hrad and a 11 fair Are bending above their schoolbooks And dolD doing a lesson there And I remember another Bound table long ago With a china lump lamp In fn the center And And two dark heads beadi bending low We helped ourselves to the apples That lay on the copper plate And we munched on a bowl of popcorn While we learned to conjugate The old clock ticked on the mantle A kitten lay on the rug The stove burned wood In the corner And the room was warm and snug When the be clock struck nine our mother Smiled d In n bt her r wise sweet wa way And we climbed to the attic bedroom To dream of ot another day duro The crocheted spread oll and the bureau burau The pictures In rosewood frames The books bout DInsmore The lamps lamps' uncertain names flames ames I see ace the whole humble picture As catching my daughters daughter's ey eys Above the dining room table I dream of the days gone b by Copyright U oV y I