Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WANDERER'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: There will be, when I come home, through the hill-gap / in the west
Last Line: The ease of this hunger of heart there will be when I come home!
Subject(s): Homecoming


THERE will be, when I come home, through the hill-gap in the west,
The friendly smile of the sun on the fields that I love best;
The red-topped clover here, and the white-whorled daisy there,
And the bloom of the wilding briar that attars the upland air;
There will be bird-mirth sweet -- (mellower none may know!) --
The flute of the hermit-thrush, the call of the vireo;
Pleasant gossip of leaves, and from the dawn to the gloam
The lyric laughter of brooks, there will be when I come home.

There will be, when I come home, the kindliness of the earth --
Ah, how I love it all, bounteous breadth and girth!
The very sod will say, -- tendril, fiber, and root, --
"Here is our foster-child, he of the wandering foot.
Welcome! welcome!" And, lo! I shall pause at a gate ajar
That the leaning lilacs shade, where the honeysuckles are;
I shall see the open door -- Oh, farer over the foam,
The ease of this hunger of heart there will be when I come home!





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