FIRE! Fire! Ring! and ring! Hear the old bell bang and ding! Fire! Fire! 'way at night, -- Can't you hear? -- I think you might! -- Can't hear them-air clangin' bells? -- W'y, @3I@1 can't hear nothin' else! Fire! Ain't you 'wake at last! -- Hear them horses poundin' past -- Hear that ladder-wagon grind Round the corner! -- and, behind, Hear the hose-cart, turnin' short, And the horses slip and snort, As the engines clank-and-jar Jolts the whole street, near and far. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Can't you h'ist that winder higher? La! they've all got past like "scat!" . . . Night's as black as my old hat -- And it's rainin', too, at that! . . . Wonder where their old fire's at! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES by FRANCOIS VILLON JOGGIN' ERLONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE RETORT by GEORGE POPE MORRIS CAPTAIN BING by LYMAN FRANK BAUM LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP by EMILY JANE BRONTE MATER DOLOROSA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE MAID OF MURRAY HILL by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD HAYES: SONG. ROSES by THOMAS CAMPION |