Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HILLS OF HOME, by CHARLES T. DAVIS


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First Line: After long days when I come
Last Line: Gold and jade—the hills of home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T.
Subject(s): Arkansas; Home; Landscape


AFTER long days when I come
Once more from far-roving home,
While I watch with eager eyes

Old loved landmarks, friendly-wise;
Sudden bursting into view
Sharp etched on the skies' clean blue,
Lo, the hills of home arise.

Always 'round the curve they lie
Waiting hid as I draw nigh,
Till I pass the angled bend
And the last long slope ascend,
And the shortening road runs straight;
There to welcome me they wait —
Hills of home, and journey's end.

Hoofbeats quickening on the trail —
Grind of train wheels on the rail —
Motor swerving sharp and sheer —
Steamer reaching for the pier —
Curve or headland, break or bend
I must pass, and at the end
Stand the home hills, clean and clear.

Thus, when fate my spirit brings
To the ordained end of things,
I shall come as now I come
Through far spaces wearisome,
Through the shrouding veils that lie
Twixt time and eternity,
Till they blaze against the sky;
Gold and jade—the Hills of Home.





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