Home Again With Me
James Riley




James Whitcomb Riley

Home Again With Me / Illustrated





DEDICATION

HIS LOVE OF HOME


		"As love of native land," the old man said,
		'Er stars and stripes a-wavin' overhead,
		Er nearest kith-and-kin, er daily bread,
		A Hoosier's love is for the old homestead."




HOME AGAIN WITH ME


		I'M a-feelin' ruther sad,
		Fer a father proud and glad
		As I am – my only child
		Home, and all so rickonciléd! —
		Feel so strange-like, and don't know
		What the mischief ails me so! —

		'Stid o' bad, I ort to be
		Feelin' good pertickerly—
		Yes, and extry thankful, too, —
		'Cause my nearest kith-and-kin,
		My Elviry's schoolin' 's through,
		And I' got her home ag'in —
		Home ag'in with me!

		My Elviry's schoolin' 's through,
		And I' got her home ag'in —
		Same as ef her mother'd bin
		Livin', I have done my best
		By the girl, and watchfulest;
		Nussed her – keerful' as I could —
		From a baby, day and night, —
		Drawin' on the neighberhood
		And the women-folks as light
		As needsessity 'u'd 'low —
		'Cept in "teethin'," onc't, and fight
		Through black-measles…

		Same as ef her mother'd bin
		Livin', I have done my best
		Don't know now
		How we ever saved the child!
		Doc hed give her up, and said
		(As I stood there by the bed
		Sort o' foolin' with her hair
		On the hot wet piller there)
		"Wuz no use!" – And at them-air
		Very words she waked and smiled —
		Yes, and knowed me. And that's where
		I broke down, and simply jes
		Bellered like a boy – I guess! —

		Women claimed I did, but I
		Alius helt I didn't cry
		But wuz laughin', – and I wuz, —
		(Men don't cry like women does!)
		Well, right then and there I felt
		'T 'uz her mother's doin's, and,
		Jes like to myse'f, I knelt,
		Whisperin' "I understand."…

		So I've raised her, you might say,
		Stric'ly in the narrer way
		'At her mother walked therein —
		Not so quite religiously




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