HOME AGAIN WITH ME

By James Whitcomb Riley

Drawings by Howard Chandler Christy

Decorations by Franklin Booth

Indianapolis

1908

The Bobbs-Merrill Company

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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

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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!—

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'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!

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