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AGAINST the wooded hills it stands	A
Ghost of a dead home staring through	B
Its broken lights on wasted lands	A
Where old time harvests grew	B
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Unploughed unsown by scythe unshorn	C
The poor forsaken farm fields lie	D
Once rich and rife with golden corn	C
And pale green breadths of rye	D
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Of healthful herb and flower bereft	E
The garden plot no housewife keeps	F
Through weeds and tangle only left	E
The snake its tenant creeps	F
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A lilac spray still blossom clad	G
Sways slow before the empty rooms	H
Beside the roofless porch a sad	G
Pathetic red rose blooms	H
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His track in mould and dust of drouth	I
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves	J
And in the fireless chimney's mouth	I
His web the spider weaves	J
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The leaning barn about to fall	K
Resounds no more on husking eves	J
No cattle low in yard or stall	K
No thresher beats his sheaves	J
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So sad so drear It seems almost	L
Some haunting Presence makes its sign	C
That down yon shadowy lane some ghost	L
Might drive his spectral kine	C
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O home so desolate and lorn	C
Did all thy memories die with thee	I
Were any wed were any born	C
Beneath this low roof tree	I
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Whose axe the wall of forest broke	M
And let the waiting sunshine through	B
What goodwife sent the earliest smoke	M
Up the great chimney flue	B
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Did rustic lovers hither come	N
Did maidens swaying back and forth	I
In rhythmic grace at wheel and loom	O
Make light their toil with mirth	I
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Did child feet patter on the stair	P
Did boyhood frolic in the snow	C
Did gray age in her elbow chair	P
Knit rocking to and fro	C
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The murmuring brook the sighing breeze	Q
The pine's slow whisper cannot tell	R
Low mounds beneath the hemlock trees	Q
Keep the home secrets well	R
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Cease mother land to fondly boast	L
Of sons far off who strive and thrive	S
Forgetful that each swarming host	L
Must leave an emptier hive	S
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O wanderers from ancestral soil	T
Leave noisome mill and chaffering store	U
Gird up your loins for sturdier toil	T
And build the home once more	U
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Come back to bayberry scented slopes	V
And fragrant fern and ground nut vine	C
Breathe airs blown over holt and copse	V
Sweet with black birch and pine	C
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What matter if the gains are small	K
That life's essential wants supply	D
Your homestead's title gives you all	K
That idle wealth can buy	D
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All that the many dollared crave	W
The brick walled slaves of 'Change and mart	X
Lawns trees fresh air and flowers you have	Y
More dear for lack of art	X
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Your own sole masters freedom willed	Z
With none to bid you go or stay	A2
Till the old fields your fathers tilled	A2
As manly men as they	A2
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With skill that spares your toiling hands	V
And chemic aid that science brings	V
Reclaim the waste and outworn lands	V
And reign thereon as kings	V

John Greenleaf Whittier

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