Excerpt from Songs of the Kingdom

Songs of the Kingdom

Almost Home

I'm almost home at last,
Almost home,
Driving before the blast,
The sheeted foam,
The wrack and roar of waves
Eager to open graves.
Yea, but each comber laves
The shores of home!

Almost home at last,
Almost home!
Dark is the weltering past
I chose to roam:
Wrecks of the gifts of life,
Prizes, - the scars of strife.
Yea, but the winds are rife
With sounds of home!

For I'm almost home at last,
Almost home!
The signs are clustering fast
Amid the gloam.
I see the twinkling lights,
The star-illuminated heights,
I sense the dear delights
Of welcome home!

Home, blest home,
Where night and storm and scar
Fade in the stillness of a life afar
Home, dear home,
I'm almost home!

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