Quotable: On Thanksgiving
Edward Willis Redfield, oil on canvas
Over the river, and through the wood,
trot fast my dapple gray!
Spring over the ground like a hunting-hound!
For ’tis Thanksgiving Day. …
Over the river, and through the wood-
now Grandmothers cap I spy!
Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding done?
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
From the poem “A Boy’s Thanksgiving,” published in 1844
by Lydia Maria Child, journalist, writer and abolitionist
