‘Fire in the window’
BY MARY MAPES DODGE
Fire in the window! flashes in the pane!
Fire on the roof-top! blazing weather-vane!
Turn about, weather-vane! put the fire out!
The sun’s going down, sir, I haven’t a doubt.
Source: She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 1997)