| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | Home | | By William Croswell |
| | | I KNEW my father’s chimney top, | |
| Though nearer to my heart than eye, | |
| And watch’d the blue smoke reeking up | |
| Between me and the winter sky. | |
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| Wayworn I traced the homeward track, | 5 |
| My wayward youth had left with joy; | |
| Unchanged in soul I wander’d back, | |
| A man, in years—in heart, a boy. | |
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| I thought upon its cheerful hearth, | |
| And cheerful hearts’ untainted glee, | 10 |
| And felt of all I ’d seen on earth, | |
| This was the dearest spot to me. | | | | |
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