I learned at least what home could be

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 onlyBloom Birds to interrupt
The Ripple of our Theme -

And Task for Both - When Play be done -
Yourlabor Problem - of the Brain -
And mine - some foolisher effect -
AThimble 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 Sunrisecall - 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 -