Excerpt from The Home: Its Work and Influence

Two Callings

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I hear a deep voice through uneasy dreaming,

A deep, soft, tender, soul-beguiling voice;

A lulling voice that bids the dreams remain.

That calms my restlessness and dulls my pain.

That thrills and fills and holds me till in seeming

There is no other sound on earth - no choice.

"Home!" says the deep voice, "Home!" and softly

Brings me a sense of safety unsurpassed;

So old! so old! The piles above the wave -

The shelter of the stone-blocked, shadowy cave -

Security of sun-kissed treetops swinging -

Safety and Home at last!

"Home" says the sweet voice, and warm Comfort rises,

Holding my soul with velvet-fingered hands;

Comfort of leafy lair and lapping fur,

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