With Trumpet and Drum

WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM

by Eugene·Field
New·York Charles·Scribner’s·Sons 1897 Copyright, 1892, by Mary French Field. TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK
This volume is made up of verse compiled from my “Little Book of Western Verse,” my “Second Book of Verse,” and the files of the “Chicago Daily News,” the “Youth’s Companion,” and the “Ladies’ Home Journal.”
E.F.
Chicago, October 25, 1892.


With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It’s this way and that way they circle and file— My! but that music of theirs is fine! This way and that way, and after a while They march straight into this heart of mine! A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum!