om the hall
       Show chairs and desks of quaint old style,
     And curious pictures on the wall
       Provoke a reverential smile.

     Musing, we loiter in each room
       And linger with our vanished sires;
     We hear the deep, far-echoing boom
       That spoke of old in flashing fires.

     But deepening shadows bid us go,
       The western sun is sinking fast;
     We take our leave with footsteps slow,
       Farewell, ye treasures of the past.

     A century and more has gone,
       Since these old relics saw their day;
     That day was but the opening dawn
       Of one that has not passed away.

     Our banner is no worthless rag,
       With patriot pride hearts still beat high;
     And there, above, still waves the flag
       For which our fathers dared to die.

[Footnote A: Inscription on this Cannon:--

Gun made in Queen Anne's time. Captured with a British vessel by a party of
Jerseymen in the year 1780, near Perth Amboy. Presented by the township of
Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1874.]

[Footnote B: Inscription on "Old Nat:"--

This cannon was furnished Capt. Nathaniel Camp by Gen. George Washington
for the protection of Newark N. J. against the British. Presented to the
Association by Mr. Bruen H. Camp, of Newark, N. J.]

[Footnote C: The inscription upon it is as follows:--

The "Crown Prince Gun." Captured from the British at Springfield. Used as
an alarm gun at Short Hills to end of Revolutionary War. Given in charge by
General Benoni Hathaway to Colonel Wm. Brittin on the last training at
Morristown, and by his son, Wm. Jackson Brittin, with the consent of the
public authorities, presented to the Association in the year 1890.]

[Footnote D: The list of officers of the Revolutionary army mentioned in
the poem is taken from a printed placard which hangs in the hall of the
Headquarters.]

[Footnote E: Knox is called a roaring chief because when crossing the
Delaware with Washington his "stentorian lungs" did good service in keeping
the army together.]

[Footnote F: The reference to 