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BACK HOME by MAY WILLIAMS WARD

First Line: TO LIVE IS TO GO ON A JOURNEY
Last Line: TO DIE IS TO COME BACK HOME.
Subject(s): TRAVEL; JOURNEYS; TRIPS;
To live is to go on a journey,
To die is to come back home.
My shoe soles are thin with wandering,
Sticky with clay and loam,
There are marks of stones and of brambles,
The leather is scuffed and torn,
And I must not have walked quite straight, I think,
For the heels are unevenly worn.
I shall take off my shoes and sleep and rest ...
If I dream, shall I dream that I roam?
To live is to go on a journey,
To die is to come back home.



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