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APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by                    
First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies
Last Line: To go back home again!
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life


I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies,
And golden-glow against the fence, and scented daffodillies.
I long to let the bucket down and draw it up o'erflowing
To dripping hang until I go
And worship beauty, row on row,
Pink as the dawn, white as the snow,
My miracles a'growing.

The border of shy flowering moss; tall iris hiding never.
Lush green grass where poppies stray -- silk ladies, vagrant ever.
You prodigal sweet climbing-rose, your lavish color spilling.
You robins in the cherry-tree
All unafraid a'feasting free,
O, love and home -- you call to me,
And set me longing, thrilling!

'Tis summer now; at any rate the calendar says so.
But -- housetops, chimneys, everywhere; there's nothing here to grow.
Is memory a throb of joy, or is it stab of pain?
Dwelling here so stark and high,
Far from the ground, shut from the sky,
Tears flood my eyes, my heart makes cry
To go back home again!





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