If I shouldn't be alive 1
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.
If I couldn't thank you, 5
Being fast asleep,
You will know I'm trying
Why my Granite lip!
When the Robins come,
Give the one in Red Cravat,
A Memorial crumb.
If I couldn't thank you, 5
Being fast asleep,
You will know I'm trying
Why my Granite lip!
(F.210/J.182)
[3] Red Cravat:: the reddish-orange breast of robin.
[4] Memorial:: a hint on a statue.
[8] Granite lip:: mostly likely the Jackson Statue in Washington. Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, nicknamed "Old Hickory" for his toughness.
All were familiar with the promptness and decision, the active intrepidity, and unyielding firmness, he had evinced in his different engagements and marches through the Indian territory of the Hickory Ground, and in allusion to which the appellation of "Old Hickory" had been bestowed upon him; and the brilliant victory won at New Orleans threw the country into a complete fever of joy. ─ Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson (1855)
