Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1910 — Old Favorites [ARTICLE]

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Do Tber Kin He at Home? Do they min me at home —do they y miss me? c ■’/ h "rwould be an assurance most dear, To know that this moment some loved "* one • Were saying, “I wish he was here;” To feel that the group at the fireside Were thinking of me as I roam. Oh, yes, ’twould be Joy beyorid'measure To know that they miss’d me at home. - ■ : ■■■'■■ --. When twilight approaches the season That is ever sacred to song, Does someone repeat my name over, And sigh that I tarry so ltjng? And Ur there a chord In the-music -miss’d when my tioice Is away? And a chord In each heart that awaketh . Regret, at my wearisome stay? t Do they set me a chair near the tabic, When evening’s home pleasures are nigh, When the candles are lit In the parlor. And the stars In the calm, azure sky? And when the "good nights” are repeated, .c, ‘ And all lay them down to their sleep. Do they think of the absent and waft me A whisper’d “good night” while they weep? v- v Do they miss me at home—do they mips me At morning, at noon, or at night? And lingers one gloomy shade round them That only my presence can light? Are joys less invitingly welcome, And pleasures less hale than before, Because one Is miss’d from the circle. Because 1 am with them no more?