[78-L] "The Night Alarm"

[Craig Ventresco]

Dan W Reeves??? Who is that??

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <L78rpm at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.
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