The House by the Ferry

University of Oklahoma Magazine 9 (November 1920):10.

By Ruth Margaret Muskrat

The racklety shacklety house by the ferry,

The house where the winter winds blow;

Where the fire on the hearth crackles merry

And the children dash through the snow.

Oh I would go back to the house by the ferry

Back over the years of pain,

Oh I would go back to the house by the ferry

And be a child again.

The racklety shacklety house by the ferry

That once was so sturdy and new,

Where the goblin bold and the elfin fairy

Lived in dreams that a wee child knew.

But the years that have come to the house by the ferry

Have changed all the rainbow gleams,

Oh the years that have come to the house by the ferry

Have stolen my roseate dreams.