Home Again With Me

James Whitcomb Riley

Home Again With Me / Illustrated

DEDICATION

HIS LOVE OF HOME

"As love of native land," the old man said,'Er stars and stripes a-wavin' overhead,Er nearest kith-and-kin, er daily bread,A Hoosier's love is for the old homestead."

HOME AGAIN WITH ME

I'M a-feelin' ruther sad,Fer a father proud and gladAs I am – my only childHome, and all so rickonciléd! —Feel so strange-like, and don't knowWhat the mischief ails me so! —'Stid o' bad, I ort to beFeelin' good pertickerly—Yes, and extry thankful, too, —'Cause my nearest kith-and-kin,My Elviry's schoolin' 's through,And I' got her home ag'in —Home ag'in with me!My Elviry's schoolin' 's through,And I' got her home ag'in —Same as ef her mother'd binLivin', I have done my bestBy the girl, and watchfulest;Nussed her – keerful' as I could —From a baby, day and night, —Drawin' on the neighberhoodAnd the women-folks as lightAs needsessity 'u'd 'low —'Cept in "teethin'," onc't, and fightThrough black-measles…Same as ef her mother'd binLivin', I have done my bestDon't know nowHow we ever saved the child!Doc hed give her up, and said(As I stood there by the bedSort o' foolin' with her hairOn the hot wet piller there)"Wuz no use!" – And at them-airVery words she waked and smiled —Yes, and knowed me. And that's whereI broke down, and simply jesBellered like a boy – I guess! —Women claimed I did, but IAlius helt I didn't cryBut wuz laughin', – and I wuz, —(Men don't cry like women does!)Well, right then and there I felt'T 'uz her mother's doin's, and,Jes like to myse'f, I knelt,Whisperin' "I understand."…So I've raised her, you might say,Stric'ly in the narrer way'At her mother walked therein —Not so quite religiously

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