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I learned - at least -
what Home could be -
How ignorant I had been
Of pretty ways of Covenant -
How awkward at the Hymn
Round our new Fireside -
but for this -
This pattern - of the way -
Whose Memory drowns
me, like the Dip
Of a Celestial Sea -
What Mornings in our
Garden - guessed -
What Bees - for us - to
hum -
With only Bloom
Birds to
interrupt
The Ripple of our Theme -
And Task for Both -
When Play be done -
Your labor
Problem - of the
Brain -
And mine - some
foolisher effect -
A Thimble
Ruffle - or a Tune -
The Afternoons - together
spent -
And Twilight - in the
Lanes -
Some ministry to poorer lives -
Seen poorest - thro' our gains -
And then Return - and
Trust
Night - and Home -
And then away to You
to pass -
A new - diviner - Care -
Till Sunrise call -
take us
back to Scene -
Transmuted - Vivider -
This seems a Home -
And Home is not -
But what that Place
could be -
Afflicts me - as a
Setting Sun -
Where Dawn - knows
how to be -
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