HOME-FOLKS! -- Well, that-air name, to me, Sounds jis the same as @3poetry@1 -- That is, ef poetry is jis As sweet as I've hearn tell it is! Home-Folks -- they're jis the same as @3kin@1 -- All brung up, same as @3we@1 have bin, Without no over powerin' sense Of their oncommon consequence! They've bin to school, but not to git The habit fastened on 'em yit So as to ever interfere With @3other@1 work 'at's waitin' here: Home-Folks has crops to plant and plow, Er lives in town and keeps a cow; But whether country-jakes er town-, They know when eggs is up er down! La! can't you @3spot@1 'em -- when you meet 'Em @3anywheres@1 -- in field er street? And can't you see their faces, bright As circus-day, heave into sight? And can't you hear their "Howdy!" clear As a brook's chuckle to the ear, And allus find their laughin' eyes As fresh and clear as morning skies? And can't you -- when they've gone away -- Jis feel 'em shakin' hands, all day? And feel, too, you've bin higher raised By sich a meetin'? -- God be praised? Oh, Home-Folks! you're the best of all 'At ranges this terreschul ball, -- But, north er south, er east er west, It's home where you're at your best. -- It's home -- it's home your faces shine, In-nunder your own fig and vine -- Your fambly and your neighbers 'bout Ye, and the latch-string hangin' out. . . . . . . . Home-Folks -- @3at home,@1 -- I know o' one Old feller now 'at hain't got none. -- Invite him -- he may hold back some -- But @3you@1 invite him, and he'll come. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ON A VOLUME OF SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY by GEORGE SANTAYANA ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND by JOHN KEATS THE BIRDS: THE WEDDING CHANT by ARISTOPHANES EAST AND WEST by MATTHEW ARNOLD LA BEAUTE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |