Quote of the Day (George Parsons Lathrop, on Thanksgiving)

“When the skies are sad and murky,

   'Tis a cheerful thing to meet

Round this homely roast of turkey—

   Pilgrims, pausing just to greet,

   Then, with earnest grace, to eat

          A new Thanksgiving turkey.

“And the merry feast is freighted

   With its meanings true and deep.

Those we've loved and those we've hated,

   All, to-day, the rite will keep,

   All, to-day, their dishes heap

          With plump Thanksgiving turkey.”—American poet, novelist and newspaper editor George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898), “Thanksgiving Turkey,” Harper’s, December 1876