Coming Down

This is the very time of year when all the city cousins,

The aunts and uncles, daughters, sons and nephews by the dozens,

Get interested in the folks who live way-back from the town

And write that they are thinking bye and bye of “coming down”.

It’ strange how just this time of year the city people fall

To thinking of their country friends and write them, one and all

Such friendly letters, full of love and wishes from the town,

And incidentally include that they are “coming down”.

I do not understand it all, why just this time of year

The city folks write country folks in terms so very dear.

But I suppose I’ll soon find out, right from the folks from town,

Because you see I’ve got some friends who write they’re “coming down”.

May 7, 1904