VAGRANT VERSE
HOMES NOT FOR SALE. “Better Homes for Sale”—the signboards tell me. O, is it true someone can sell a home? And what is it that he would try to sell me If I should wish to buy one for my own ? I ponder on the meaning of the signs; H—O—M—E, what do those letters spell ?. And does this cheerful maker of.designs Conceive the kind of home where I would dwell ? Home is companionship and understanding, Where grief is softened because others share, Where joy is ever multiplied by banding Together of fond hearts abiding there. What matter, be it palace or a hovel, If hearts beat true, if smiles or tears but bring A closer tie? Wherever we may dwell It will be home to us —if Love be king, Fdr homes can only be with patienca wrought, Of love, and sacrifice, and tender care. Houses and lands, just things, with gold are bought, But homes are not for sale—not anywhere! —Walter Aldrich Tenney in the Christum Science Monitor.
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Southland Times, Issue 20979, 11 January 1930, Page 4
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171VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 20979, 11 January 1930, Page 4
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