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PROEM TO “HOME-FOLKS” |
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 | The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley |  |
1947
PROEM TO “HOME-FOLKS”
You Home-Folks:—Aid your grateful guest—
Bear with his pondering, wandering ways:
When idlest he is busiest,
Being a dreamer of the days.
Bear with his pondering, wandering ways:
When idlest he is busiest,
Being a dreamer of the days.
Humor his silent, absent moods—
His restless quests along the shores
Of the old creek, wound through the woods,
The haws, papaws, and sycamores:
His restless quests along the shores
Of the old creek, wound through the woods,
The haws, papaws, and sycamores:
The side-path home—the back-way past
The old pump and the dipper there;
The afternoon of dreamy June—
The old porch, and the rocking-chair.
The old pump and the dipper there;
The afternoon of dreamy June—
The old porch, and the rocking-chair.
Yea, bear with him a little space—
His heart must smolder on a while
Ere yet it flames out in his face
A wholly tearless smile.
His heart must smolder on a while
Ere yet it flames out in his face
A wholly tearless smile.
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