Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | Two Pictures | | Annie D. Green (Marian Douglas) (1842–1913) |
| | | AN OLD farm-house with meadows wide, | |
| And sweet with clover on each side; | |
| A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out | |
| The door with woodbine wreathed about | |
| And wishes his one thought all day: | 5 |
| “O, if I could but fly away | |
| From this dull spot, the world to see, | |
| How happy, happy, happy, | |
| How happy I should be!” | |
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| Amid the city’s constant din, | 10 |
| A man who round the world has been, | |
| Who, mid the tumult and the throng, | |
| Is thinking, thinking all day long: | |
| “O, could I only tread once more | |
| The field-path to the farm-house door, | 15 |
| The old, green meadow could I see, | |
| How happy, happy, happy, | |
| How happy I should be!” | | | | |
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