| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Home | | By Edwin Ford Piper |
| | | GOOD-BYE to riding the wilderness | |
| With my thoughts for company; | |
| To the old new bed on the prairie grass, | |
| A saddle to pillow me! | |
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| I will build me a house in the April sun | 5 |
| On my little garden ground. | |
| My hand shall shape the rafter and beam, | |
| My hammer stroke shall sound. | |
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| For a house is a house, and home is home— | |
| The roots of the soul go deep; | 10 |
| And I own the boards and the rusting nails | |
| As I own my tears and my sleep. | |
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| Good-bye to riding the wilderness!— | |
| I build in the April sun. | |
| Good-bye to the land of the lonely sky— | 15 |
| My homeless days are done. | | | | |
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