Childhood's happy home, and other verses

by Lemuel Kayhart

Our riches and power can never be told.

Here’s to our party—our friends with the rest,—

And here’s to the people we each love best,

May we live in the future like lambs of one flock,

And all work together like the works of a clock.

And now I will stop, I’ve toasted to all,

Our country, our banner, the great and the small,

So now I will bid you a friendly adieu,

Three roaring cheers for the Red, White and Blue!

[1]. Spoken by Lemuel Kayhart at the twentieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Kayhart, on Monday, August 12, 1889, at Montville, N. J.