Independence (verse)
Miniter, Edith
World's full of collectors, Staffordshire plates . . . many loves . . . Rogers groups . . . lions . . . Even out here, in the country, folks collect. David Dwight, He collects cellar...
...David Dwight, He collects cellar holes, Has always collected cellar holes...
...Well, it was his house...
...Holes that were windows will welcome next winter's snow...
...But this does not concern David Dwight, Who collects cellar holes...
...Now a cottage over the way from him is going...
...His forbears built these houses for homes...
...Abandoned house by an abandoned road— Folks offered to move it away, Buy it and move it away to where the town would keep the roads open, "No, ye don't," said David Dwight...
...I think David Dwight has not kept his ancestral trust...
...Has always collected cellar holes...
...Some of the neighbors wanted to save the corner cupboard and a fireframe...
...So the roof fell in, So the walls sagged inward, The fieldstone chimney let light through...
...Its outside stairs fell off last winter...
...Next to fall down was the red house round the corner from where he lived...
...He had tenants, He wouldn't repair the roof...
...While these homes fall down people seek homes, Out in the fields people try to make homes in woodchoppers' shanties...
...First to fall down was a house way up on the mountain, David Dwight had been bom there, But that couldn't save it...
...No, ye don't," said David Dwight...
...Well, it was his house...
Vol. 6 • June 1927 • No. 8
