{"id":61,"date":"2015-11-26T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2015-11-26T14:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:41:18","slug":"a-ford-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"A Ford Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordPoem.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordPoem-208x300.jpeg\" alt=\"FordPoem\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordPoem-208x300.jpeg 208w, http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordPoem-710x1024.jpeg 710w, http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordPoem.jpeg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the good, gladsome time of Thanksgiving<br \/>\nWhen we see life thro&#8217; glasses of Beauty,<br \/>\nAnd man from the pure love of living<br \/>\nWorships more from delight than from duty.<br \/>\nAll the woods have grown golden and mellow,<br \/>\nAnd their sere leaves blow wide thro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the weather,<br \/>\nEver tinting the fields read and yellow,<br \/>\nOr descending the hillsides together.<\/p>\n<p>Fetch a flagon of ruby-red cider,<br \/>\nSun-brewed in wide orchards <strong><em>lang syne,<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nAnd well drink to old Time, the Divider,<br \/>\nIn the primest of Nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own wine.<br \/>\nNow the streams wind thro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 veilings of vapor<br \/>\nAnd a soft Indian Summer is nigh,<br \/>\nHer piece-pipe alight from yon taper<br \/>\nOf stars in a lavender sky!<\/p>\n<p>O, the turkeys are royally roasting<br \/>\nIn thousands of ovens today,<br \/>\nAnd we know, without bluster or boasting,<br \/>\nIn each home there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a feast under way.<br \/>\nEvery haunt of the Ford Car is merry<br \/>\nIn the bounty of tables well-laden,<br \/>\nFor \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctis there that the Good Fortune fairy<br \/>\nIs truly a homekeeping maiden!<\/p>\n<p>Wheresoever the Ford Model T<br \/>\nStands expectant by driveway or lawn,<br \/>\nThe chance-passing hobo can see<br \/>\nFun, feasting and frolic are on;<br \/>\nFor the profits of automobiling<br \/>\nBoth in health and in pocket produced<br \/>\nHave climaxed this day of good feeling<br \/>\nWith a bird from Prosperity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s roost!<\/p>\n<p>Since \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ford Times are evidence of Best Times,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d then surely<br \/>\nThese verses appropriate are,<br \/>\nWhere the Motor muse, smiling demurely,<br \/>\nTies her song to a Model T car.<br \/>\nKind <strong><em>devoirs<\/em><\/strong>, then, to dealers and patrons,<br \/>\nIn each province or country or clime,<br \/>\nAnd e\u00e2\u20ac\u2122en to the Ford maids and matrons,<br \/>\nBe our thanks in this tribute of rhyme!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.thehenryford.org\/Collection.aspx?objectKey=377707\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ford Times<\/em>. Vol. 5, No. 2. November 1911<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordTimesCover.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-63 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordTimesCover-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"FordTimesCover\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordTimesCover-195x300.jpeg 195w, http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordTimesCover-666x1024.jpeg 666w, http:\/\/www.briwilson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FordTimesCover.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the good, gladsome time of Thanksgiving When we see life thro&#8217; glasses of Beauty, And man from the pure love of living Worships more from delight than from duty. 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