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YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by                    
First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west
Last Line: In your little gray home in the west.
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


You call it your little gray home in the west;
I'll say
It is gray
When you are away;
For all that is best in our beautiful west—
Its hilltops of vision and valleys of rest,
Its sun and glad answer to all the heart's quest—
Is gone when you're gone from the west.

For home is the spot where the heart is at rest.
No fear
Can appear
Touching those we hold dear;
Life comes to its own, and in fullness is blest;
Truth, purity, hope and sweet love at their best;
Make a home in the east or the west.

For home's not a house, but a state of the heart;
No nest
East or west
Though the finest and best
Can be home till that heart, eased of quiver and smart,
Is filled with friend images, love without art,
And draws to its ingle those scattered apart;
For all friends are at home in the heart.

Then, whether together, or wandered away,
No blight
Neither night
Can rob of our right
If we truly keep faith with the hearts we hold dear;
And in our earth wanderings walk ever near,
To the love that made glorious all that was best
In your little gray home in the west.





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