Our Blue Blood

I w i i'i'iii iirii's and a hnlf ago Off trudged to work with shouldered hoe A womau, barefoot, browned auü rough Wlth pluck of Purltanlc stuff. ¦Slx lunty chlldren tugged behlDd, All hatless, shoelesg. uiicniitliii'il. A ml happy as the btrüs that (lew About them. Nnuglit of books they knew. Save one ibey read at twlllglit bour. A prstly lady, thln and white, ín hamuiook swlnglng llglit. I .:iiit:iiisiM'H. and Ín tbe sbade Dcvours rbyme and leraonade. Wlille bpnding near ber lover blghg, And geiUly fans away the tiles. 8he murmura, 'Tls o nloe Ibat WJ Are nelther of low lamí y, Hut of oíd Puritaulc mock That landed upon Plymouth Rock."