When thirty-five young stalwart men,
And Uncle Isaac, reared the home
Of old Elm Island’s Lion Ben.
I name it, then, the “Lion’s Den;”
When we are dead these walls shall last,
To tell of times when men were men,
And keep the record of the past;—
When worth, not wealth, won woman’s heart,
While she her lighter burden bore;
At wheel and loom performed her part,