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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ABSENT, by VIRGINIA HART LIDE
First Line: Two sons I have away from home
Last Line: Like dry earth drinking rain.
Subject(s): Absence; Mothers & Sons; Separation; Isolation
First Line: Two sons I have away from home
Last Line: Like dry earth drinking rain.
Subject(s): Absence; Mothers & Sons; Separation; Isolation
Two sons I have away from home,
One in the North, one South;
Their absence sears my lonely heart
Like grainfields seared in drouth.
Their letters come, so dear, so sweet,
Quite often, yet too few;
They flood my heart with happiness
Like parched grass drenched with dew.
Vacation time, when they come home,
My heart forgets its pain
In drinking in each word they say
Like dry earth drinking rain.
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