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Riley Songs of Home

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Our Own

They walk here with us, hand-in-hand;

We gossip, knee-by-knee;

They tell us all that they have planned—

Of all their joys to be,—

And, laughing, leave us: And, to-day,

All desolate we cry

Across wide waves of voiceless graves—

Good-by! Good-by! Good-by!

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