Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="HOMESICKNESS" id="HOMESICKNESS"></SPAN>Homesickness</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">T</span>HE folks whom we visit, but once in a while<br/></span> <span class="ih">Those friends who are far, far away,<br/></span> <span class="i0">May be thoughtful and generous indeed to a fault<br/></span> <span class="i2">And kindness itself every day.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Not even the hills with the mist on the top<br/></span> <span class="i2">And the sun shooting flames ’cross the loam,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Can make me forget, nor still the wild fret<br/></span> <span class="i2">In my heart for the place I call home.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The valleys like Eden are misty and deep:<br/></span> <span class="i2">They are washed with the dews of the morn.<br/></span> <span class="i0">They but serve to depress me and make me a prey<br/></span> <span class="i2">To longings both sad and forlorn.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The lilt of the trees and the song of the birds<br/></span> <span class="i2">Once so cheery have sobered their tone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For my heartstrings are tied, to a little fireside<br/></span> <span class="i2">In a place that I love to call home.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_81" id="page_81">{81}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />