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− | ... | + | {{Style P-Poem|poem=From my upper window, at the close of day, |
+ | Sadly watching passers on their homeward way, | ||
+ | Sadly sweetly thinking of the joy and glee | ||
+ | When one came, my babies, home to you and me ! | ||
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+ | In the dusk, with faces close against the pane, | ||
+ | Peered we through the starlight, snow, or summer rain, | ||
+ | Happy hearts and faces watching through the gloom | ||
+ | For the blessed footstep that was sure to come. | ||
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+ | Hark ! I hear its echo, babies mine, once more ! | ||
+ | Hear the latch-key turning in the opening door ! | ||
+ | From my knee you’re springing fearless in the gloom, | ||
+ | While I flood with radiance all the darkened room. | ||
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+ | Swift you fly to meet him, open wide the door, | ||
+ | Closely are we gathered to his heart once more. | ||
+ | Tender kiss and blessing greet your childish glee, | ||
+ | But the warmest, babies, always was for me ! | ||
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+ | Fast my tears are falling o’er the memory sweet, | ||
+ | While I catch the echo still of passing feet ; | ||
+ | But through summer starlight or through wintry rain | ||
+ | Never, O my babies, will he come again ! | ||
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+ | We are now the wanderers in the dusk and gloom, | ||
+ | He the one that’s waiting in the happy home. | ||
+ | From his upper window, though we may not see, | ||
+ | He’s watching, O my babies, to welcome you and me.}} |
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Sound Ideas
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Proffessor J.R. Buchanan
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Watching and Waiting
From my upper window, at the close of day, |