The Mason Street Engine House

The Mason Street Engine House

 

 

Don’t move the engine house away

     From good old Mason Street;

Nay, nay, good neighbors, let it stay

     To make our lives complete.

It is a landmark, old and rare,

     Historical and dear;

Disturb it not, but leave it there,

     Our daily lives to cheer.

 

You would not move the Common, sires,

     Nor Bunker Hill, I say?

Then let the King of Boston fires

     In Mason alley stay.

O, city fathers! Spare our tears,

     Touch not a brick, I trow,

In busy days it’s quelled the fears,

     And will protect it now.

 

We would not miss the “toot, toot, toot,”

     Adown the winding vale;

We fain would see the teamsters scoot

     To let the engine sail.

Ah! Life would be too dull for us,

     Too tame and incomplete

Without the scamper and the fuss

     Along old Mason Street.

 

March 10, ‘10