The Fire Last Night

The Fire Last Night

FLETA FORRESTER

Ding! dong!

Ping! dong!

The alarm Hashed over the wire:

The quick horses sprang

To their places, and—clang!

The steamers rolled off to the fire.

Fire! fire!

Fire! fire!

The heavens grew red with its light;

The sparks sifted down

O’er the slumbering town,

Asleep in the dead of the night.

Bright I light I

Bright! light 1

The people they waked; they came

And some of them thought

That the world had caught,

When they saw that leaping flame.

nissl hiss!

Hiss I hiss I

The steamers they all worked hard

Till the flames grew slim,

And the sky grew dim,

As the fire and the water warred.

Ding I dong I

Ding! dong!

Came at lost the signal toll,

And the people said,

By their change in tread,

“ The fire is now under control 1”

Out! out I

A nd they wheeled about;

The last faint gleam was dead ;

And from smoke and damp;

With a hurrying tramp,

The world roiled back to bed.

Companion.

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