Born in 1897, David Thompson Watson McCord was the associate editor for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, and is best known for his numerous anthologies of children's poetry, including Far and Few (1952), Away and Go (1975), and All Small (1986). Many like "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern" examine the everyday mundane with childlike wonderment.
Mr. Macklin takes his knife
And carves the yellow pumpkin face:
Three holes bring eyes and nose to life,
The mouth has thirteen teeth in place.
Then Mr. Macklin just for fun
Transfers the corn-cob pipe from his
Wry mouth to Jack’s, and everyone
Dies laughing! Oh What fun it is
Till Mr. Macklin draws the shade
And lights the candle in Jack’s skull
Then all the inside dark is made
As spooky and as horrorful
As Halloween, and creepy crawl
The shadows on the tool-house floor,
With Jack’s face dancing on the wall.
O Mr. Macklin! where’s the door? [1]
Works Referenced
McCord, David Thompson Watson. "Mr. Macklin's Jack O'Lantern." Far and Few: Rhymes of the Never Was and Always Is. New York: Little and Brown, 1952. 46.
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[1] McCord, 46.
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