Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — THE OLD HOME. [ARTICLE]

THE OLD HOME.

1 stood, & atniifar, ‘ntifl tta qviet wara And life teamed totMWba* harder than es A wears stretoh of bare end toiling dayt Sear heart! I vowed to tee it never more, aM weakness, fust a longing once to pass ♦art the meadfe, knee deep in elover gsnee. To- night I passed from oot its precincts dim and quaint, ; And all my heart grew fall of yearning, dear, For those sweet days; I saddened was, and faint, Ay, as I have not been fer many a year. Clasp close my hand, beloved, in thine own,' I thought of thee, 'twas bard to pass alone.