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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM DAWNING TILL DAWNING, by JENNIE EMERY
First Line: I wish that I could see once more
Last Line: All earthly duties done at last.
Subject(s): Home; Past
First Line: I wish that I could see once more
Last Line: All earthly duties done at last.
Subject(s): Home; Past
I wish that I could see once more
And see with childish vision keen
The country road that lay between
The schoolhouse and my old home door.
But when in truth I pass that way
Where once abode perennial May,
The dull gray dust lies thick alway
On grass and flower and leafy spray.
The old house too has lost its lure,
For mother isn't in the door
And father plows the fields no more,
Only the old time loves endure.
But love is first and love is last
And love shall greet us on yon shore
And guide us to the friends of yore,
All earthly duties done at last.
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