The Heart on the Highroad
THE HEART ON THE HIGHROAD
Away from light and shelter, warmth and peace,
How many and many a night of wind and rain
My anxious heart its wanderings could not cease,
Leading you home amid the tempest's strain.
Long, long you have been safe from stormy skies,
Long, long in shelter from the winter's chill;
But still the night wind shakes me with its cries,
And on my heart the icy rain falls still.
CHINOISERIE
Is it the moon afar
Yonder appears?
Nay—'tis the evening star
Seen through my tears.
J. K. Wetherill
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