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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HOME SONG, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poet's Biography
First Line: I read within a poet's book
Last Line: For there the heart can rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Home
First Line: I read within a poet's book
Last Line: For there the heart can rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Home
I READ within a poet's book
A word that starred the page:
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage!"
Yes, that is true, and something more:
You'll find, where'er you roam,
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make a home.
But every house where Love abides,
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
For there the heart can rest.
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