[78-L] "The Night Alarm"

[L78rpm at aol.com]

An instrumental "descriptive specialty" by Dan W. Reeves recorded by  
Berliner, Victor, Columbia, Edison (and others?), all ca. 1900-1903.  It  
concludes with a four-line song:
 
"When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
God and the fireman is the people's cry.
But when the fire is quenched and all things are righted,
God is forgotten and the fireman is slighted."
 
Nobody asked, but --- it appears, without attribution, in The Fireman's  
Journal of 18 October 1879.
 
Barbara Norman, in correspondence directed to oldsongs-l,  observes that it 
sounds "remarkably like a poem by the 17th century  British poet Francis 
Quarles:
 
Our God and solider we alike adore
When at the brink of ruin, not before.
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God fogotten and our soldiers slighted."
 
She believes the title is either "Epigram" or "Of Common Devotion".
 
Paul Charosh
 
Enquiring minds want to know.