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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSURED, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography
First Line: When I come home at close of day
Last Line: If I some night should not come home.
Subject(s): Family Life; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Relatives
First Line: When I come home at close of day
Last Line: If I some night should not come home.
Subject(s): Family Life; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Relatives
When I come home at close of day
I like to watch the children play.
Whatever load I have to bear,
There is abundant payment there
For all my labor. 'Tis to hear
The laugh of children, 'tis to know,
What night may come, what winds may blow,
The little children need not fear.
When I come home, my labor o'er,
I like to pause outside the door
Before I enter, hear the hymn
The good-wife hums. Cathedrals dim
Have never heard as sweet an air
As sings the good-wife setting food
Upon the table for her brood,
Secure from want and safe from care.
When I come home -- but fathers' eyes
Must look beyond the sunlit skies.
When I come home I want to know,
What night may come, what winds may blow,
They are protected. Dawn or gloam,
I want to know that, come what will,
The wife and child are sheltered still,
If I some night should not come home.
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