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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNWILLING GYPSY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: The wide green earth is mine in which to wander
Last Line: The light of home!
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: The wide green earth is mine in which to wander
Last Line: The light of home!
Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight
The wide green earth is mine in which to wander;
Each path that beckons I may follow free,
Sea to grey sea.
But O, that one walled garden, small and sheltered,
Belonged to me!
High on the mountain top I watch the sunset,
Its splendid fires flare upward and burn low,
Ah, once to know
Down in the twilight lowlands dim and tender,
My own hearth-glow!
Night falls. A thousand stars look down upon me,
But though from inland plain to ocean's foam
My steps may roam,
One clear fixed star forever is denied me . . . .
The light of home!
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