MY GRANDMOTHER'S STAND.

BY H. B. WILDMAN.

It may be, indeed, I am childless and vain,

But I love the old relic of antiquate form;

Like the surf-beaten vessel that furrows the main,

It hath struggled and weathered through many a storm!

Full well I remember it, when but a boy,

The spot where 'twas placed by that matronly hand;

And now I'm grown old, like a child with its toy,