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Poems of house and home

Piatt, John James (1835-1917)

[dedication]

POEMS OF HOUSE AND HOME.

FOUR HAPPY WALLS.

HOMEWARD ON THE TRAIN.

HER DREAM OF LOSS.

THE TRUNDLE-BED.

NOONING AT THE HALF-WAY HOUSE.

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FOUR HAPPY WALLS.

PRAYER AT HOUSE-WARMING.

Four happy walls to shut the dark away,
Four happy walls to keep the light secure:
These we call ours—oh, make them yours, we pray,
Kind gods of the hearth, domestic guardians sure.
Four walls shall close our sphere of love complete,
Though all the world within our love we fold;—

Oh, bless our threshold, make our hearth your seat:
Our home your heaven, your home our heaven hold!