A HOME SONG
by: Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)
 READ within a poet's book
- A word that starred the page:
- "Stone walls do not a prison make,
- Nor iron bars a cage!"
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- Yes, that is true; and something more
- You'll find, where'er you roam,
- That marble floors and gilded walls
- Can never make a home.
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- But every house where Love abides,
- And Friendship is a guest,
- Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
- For there the heart can rest.
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"A Home Song" is reprinted
from The White Bees and Other Poems. Henry van Dyke. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. |
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