Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOMELESS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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THE HOMELESS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad hearts! The wayside and the wilderness
Last Line: And lo! The rapture of the home above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Homeless


SAD hearts! the wayside and the wilderness
Are near to Heaven as any fire-lit room;
Despairing Hagar angels stoop to bless;
God talks with Moses in the desert gloom;
And life is but a path to his repose
Whether we walk through meads of joy and love
Or in lone wastes where every tempest blows; —
Some peerless morn we reach our journey's close,
And lo! the rapture of the home above!





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