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THE HOMELESS by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

First Line: SAD HEARTS! THE WAYSIDE AND THE WILDERNESS
Last Line: AND LO! THE RAPTURE OF THE HOME ABOVE!
Subject(s): HOMELESS;

SAD hearts! the wayside and the wilderness
Are near to Heaven as any fire-lit room;
Despairing Hagar angels stoop to bless;
God talks with Moses in the desert gloom;
And life is but a path to his repose
Whether we walk through meads of joy and love
Or in lone wastes where every tempest blows; —
Some peerless morn we reach our journey's close,
And lo! the rapture of the home above!



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