Florence Churchill Casebeer - XX. To My Grandmothers - Elisa Van Osdall, Ann Lovejoy Churchill lyrics

I note your shawl, bonnet and sturdy shoe Your dress, your swinging step, your out-stretched hand, Your forward searching eye across the land. I trace my own ancestry back through you! No longer is your figure strange and new But animated with the forms that stand Enshrined in memory,--the Mother band That followed to the west, so fine, so true! That soul that spurned the Allegheny range! That one adventuring far, far, beyond The Vermont hills and destined to meet its own Again and yet again to pa**. So strange The emerging! A child and Mother fond Still following the lure of fire and home.