Farm Ballads Page: 54
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54 FARM BALLADS
The little rogue! he goes for me, like robbers for
their prey;
He'll turn my pockets inside out, when I get home
to-day!
My little girl-I can't contrive how it should happen
thusThat
God could pick that sweet bouquet, and fling it
down to us!
My wife, she says that han'some face will some day
make a stir;
And then I laugh, because she thinks the child resembles
her.
She'll meet me half-way down the hill, and kiss me,
anyway;
And light my heart up with her smiles, when I go
home to-day!
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it
when
He's been away from home a week, and then gets
back again.
If there's a heaven above the earth, there often, I'll be
bound,
Some homesick fellow meets his folks, and hugs 'em
all around.
But let my creed be right or wrong, or be it as it
may,
My heaven is just ahead of me -I'm going home today
!
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Carleton, Will, 1845-1912. Farm Ballads, book, 1901; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29405/m1/72/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.