"We meet again to tell of the Col-
   letts and McKays.
The stories of our birth and blood,
   and tales of long past days.
A list of noble forebears stand out
   along the line
 From Bonny rugged Scotland and
   France's warmer clime;
For look in English History for An-
   drew McKay.
 The general of William of Orange on
   many victorious day.
And the Colletts, brave Huguenots,
   staid English refugees,
 Feared not for sake of principle to
   cross the narrow seas.
For, settled once in England, pledged
   to the Union Jack,
 They fought the papist foement and
   drove the Frenchmen back.
In many a bloody conflict they fought
   for what was right
 And drove from out of Ireland the
   papish Jacobite.
How boldly they fought them in water
   to the loin,
 Against their persecutors at the bat-
   tle of the Boyne.
How bravely they fought them his-
   torians proclaim
 For their fiercest enemies they
   gained a dreaded name.
And pioneers they came to Jonathan's
   welcoming shore
 To war 'gainst Britain's tyranny
   and tell their story o'er.
And when the war clouds gathered
   between the several States
 A Colonel McKay was ready our
   history relates.
A near-by shaft bears witness to loy-
   alty, courage too:
 The shaft tells half the story, in-
   spiring yet to you.
And yet in poring over the tales of
   Collett and McKay
 We find so much that's peaceful, all
   war thoughts pass away;
There are homely cheerful firesides
   where love and peace abound,
 Where welcoming hospitality was
   ever to be found.
No vain or false ambition strained
   them ever into strife
 Nor wrecked the quiet flowing of
   their peaceful, quiet life.
Their churches were the centers of the
   family life as well.
 And many a strange attendant did
   of their piety tell:
And jolly social gatherings, like one
   big family met.
 Became at times historic, today they
   they are so yet.
With all their pastoral living let me
   pause to state,
   They sent one son to honor the
   Supreme Court of the State.
And this descendant's name appears,
   with honor to be sure
 As author of "Highroad to English
   Literature."
So worthy this occasion to tell them
   o'er and o'er
 The stories of our fathers who came
   from foreign shore.
To reminisce of times long past, of
   hardy pioneer
 To trace the good example of sages
   and of seer."