Poem June 13, 1903 Issue

The Housatonias

SARAH J. DAY

Half a dozen Quaker ladies,
Straight and slim and small,
In a sunny Berkshire meadow
By a low stone wall.

"Is thee come to Yearly Meeting?"
"Yea." "And thee, too?" "Yea."
"Verily, and thee is early!"
"Opens next First-day."

And in truth, the next May Sabbath
All that meadow fair
Scarce could hold the Yearly Meeting
Set for session there.

In their little gray-blue bonnets,
Chatting, brim to brim,
Half a million Quaker ladies,
Straight and small and slim.

SARAH J. DAY.

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