The House and the Road
1874-1922
The little Road says, Go,
The little House says, Stay:
And O, it's bonny here at home,
But I must go away.
The little Road, like me,
Would seek and turn and know;
And forth I must, to learn the things
The little Road would show!
And go I must, my dears,
And journey while I may,
Though heart be sore for the little House
That had no word but Stay.
Maybe, no other way
Your child could ever know
Why a little House would have you stay,
When a little Road says, Go.
DayPoems Poem No. 1190
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1190.html">The House and the Road by Josephine Preston Peabody</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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