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The Little Book of Modern Verse

by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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The Heart’s Country. [Florence Wilkinson]

Hill people turn to their hills;
Sea-folk are sick for the sea:
Thou art my land and my country,
And my heart calls out for thee.

The bird beats his wings for the open,
The captive burns to be free;
But I — I cry at thy window,
For thou art my liberty.

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