DID YOU KNOW?
Poet patriot Joyce Kilmer was noted for writing about commonplace things, and finding in them uncommon beauty and meaning. Such is the case with his wonderful home-spun poem "The Snowman in the Yard." In it, he wrote: "The Judge's house has a splendid porch, with pillars and steps of stone, And the Judge has a lovely flowering hedge that came from across the seas; In the Hales' garage you could put my house and everything I own, And the Hales have a lawn like an emerald and a row of poplar trees. Now I have only a little house, and only a little lot, And only a few square yards of lawn, with dandelions starred; But when Winter comes, I have something there that the Judge and the Hales have not, And it's better worth having than all their wealth -- it's a snowman in the yard...a thing that is shaped by the busy touch of little mittened hands."
Provided by the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah
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