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"Home-keeping hearts are happiest." -- LONGFELLOW.
THERE will be distant journeyings enough / To reach that Land beyond the ether's sea, / To satisfy the veriest roaming heart, -- / Let me stay home with thee!
There will be new companionships enough / In that bright spirit-life. Why should we flee / So soon to alien hearts and stranger scenes? / I would stay home with thee.
The heart grows homesick, thinking of the change / When these familiar things no more shall be; / When e'en the thought of them, perchance, shall fade, -- / Let me stay home with thee.
I would imprint upon my mind each scene, / Each meadow path, and stream, and orchard-tree, / Beloved since childhood, holy with our hopes, / Sweet with the thoughts of thee.
And each dear household place, let me learn all / By heart, where I am wont thy form to see.
Who knows what things shall pass? If I may share / A hearth in heaven with thee?