Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CHANGELING GRATEFUL, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY


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First Line: Here they give me greeting
Last Line: I will creep away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.


HERE they give me greeting,
House me warm within,
Break their bread and share it
With the heart of kin.

Here the ruddy hearth-light
Singes not a moth,
Gives a summer welcome
As a red rose doth.

I would leave a gift here
If I might: not I! --
Like a homeless laughter,
Vagrant wind gone by.

But while I am a glow-worm
I will shine and stay:
When I am a shadow ...
I will creep away.





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