June, 1918 C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 99 



THE LITTLE FLAG ON OUR HOUSE 



By William Curtis Demorest, '8i 



Read at the forty-first annual dinner of the Class of i88i, Arts and Mines, 

 held at the Columbia University Club on April 4 



The little flag on our house 



Is floating all the day 



Besides the great big Stars and Stripes ; 



You can almost hear it say 



To all the folks in our street, 



As the breezes make it dance : 



"Look up and see my one blue star — 



We've got a boy in France!" 



The little flag on our house, 

 Tt floats sometimes at night, 

 And you can see it 'way up there 

 W^hen the street lamp shines just right. 

 And sometimes, 'long towards morning, 

 When the cop comes by, perchance 

 It signals with its one blue star: 

 "We've got a boy in France !" 



The little flag on our house 

 W^ill wave, and wave, and wave 

 Until our boy comes home again. 

 Or finds in France his grave. 

 Nay — tho' its blue star turn to gold, ' 



•Because of War's grim chance. 

 It still shall wave to say : "Thank God ! 

 We've got a boy in France !" 



Reprinted from Alumni News by permission from Leslie's Weekly. 



