The Gallows

JACK O’LANTERN

by Anna C. Ayer

The man in the moon looked down on the field

Where the golden pumpkin lay,

He winked at him and he blinked at him

In the funniest kind of way.

The pumpkin was yellow and fat and round

And as funny as he could be,

But strange was his case for he had no face

So he couldn’t smile back, you see.

But on All Hallowe’en, when the moon looked down

From the sky, through the shadows dim,

The pumpkin fat on a gate-post sat,

And saucily laughed at him.