Fires of Driftwood by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
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page 26 of 107 (24%)
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I've found a bigger meaning for the little word called "Home."
Wet Weather IT is the English in me that loves the soft, wet weather-- The cloud upon the mountain, the mist upon the sea, The sea-gull flying low and near with rain upon each feather, The scent of deep, green woodlands where the buds are breaking free. A world all hot with sunshine, with a hot, white sky above it-- Oh then I feel an alien in a land I'd call my own; The rain is like a friend's caress, I lean to it and love it, 'Tis like a finger on a nerve that thrills for it alone! Is it the secret kinship which each new life is given To link it by an age-long chain to those whose lives are through, That wheresoever he may go, by fate or fancy driven, The home-star rises in his heart to keep the compass true? Ah, 'tis the English in me that loves the soft, gray weather-- The little mists that trail along like bits of wind-flung foam, The primrose and the violet--all wet and sweet together, And the sound of water calling, as it used to call at home. |
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