Ammon Wrigley - "All Ask"
The following is a transcription of a work by Saddleworth poet Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946).
All Ask
- Old tales to tell when old friends meet
- Round homely hearths on merry nights,
- To loll at ease in old arm chairs,
- While at the door the cold wind bites.
- Old friends, old tales, old hearths, old chairs,
- Are all I ask, enough for me,
- And he who finds no joy in them
- How lone and drear his life must be.
- Old songs to sing when old friends meet—
- The dear folk songs of days long gone,
- Old pipes to smoke, old wines to drink
- That make the night roll gaily on.
- Old friends, old songs, old pipes, old wines,
- Are all I ask, and till life ends
- I ne’er will seek a greater joy
- Than merry nights with dear old friends.