Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOME, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN


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THE HOME, by                    
First Line: Within your portals she has dwelt
Last Line: Her soul is like a shining star.
Subject(s): Home; Mothers; Soul


Within your portals she has dwelt,
Old house, old house, here she has knelt;
Here she has wrestled oft with God,
Here have the feet of angels trod.

Your walls have heard my mother sing --
You are at best a fragile thing,
Built long ago of fragrant pine --
To me you have become a shrine.

Home flies her brood from lands afar,
Her soul is like a shining star.





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