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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOMEWARD ROAD, by CHARLES CAPRON MARSH
First Line: Through memory's haze
Last Line: The farther off the long-lost view.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory
First Line: Through memory's haze
Last Line: The farther off the long-lost view.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Memory
THROUGH memory's haze
There often strays
A tender thought of other days;
I see again
The village lane
That wandered through the wooded plain;
And most I love, of memory's train,
Its pleasant shade and quiet ways.
When to the height
The fading light
Made from the vale its evening flight,
With merry tread
I gayly sped
Along the road that homeward led;
And there a kindly radiance shed
The lights of home into the night.
I never knew
How deep and true
A welcome did its glow imbue,
But after-years
Of smiles and tears
Have taught me how that love-light cheers;
And brighter still its beam appears,
The farther off the long-lost view.
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