Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1890 — THE OLD HOME. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD HOME.

T»-night [ I Stood, a stranger, *mM W quiqt ways. And life seemed somewhat hhMer than of TOT®. A weasy strwtah of bare and toiling days. Dear heart, I vowed to see it never more, *Twm weakness, just a longing once to pass Athwart the meads, knee-deep in olover grass. To-night I passed from out its precincts dim and quaint, And all my heart grew full of yearning, clear, For those sweet days; I saddened was, and faint, Ay, as I have not been for many a year. Clasp close my hand, beloved, in thine own, I thought of thee, ’twas hard to pass alone.