Septimus Winner Poems

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What is home without a mother,
What are all the joys we meet?
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Fond moments of my childhood,
Sweet dreams of early youth;
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How sweet, How sweet are the roses
And how we watch their bloom;
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The earth is bright with beauty,
And the distant sky is fair;
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bright are the smiles ever beaming from eyes
That greet us with pleasure and trust in our care.
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I have cattle that feed in the valley,
And herds that graze on the hill,
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Am I not true to thee? true as a star,
That gleams in the firmament night after night;
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Come let us gather 'round the hearth,
The chilly nights are growing long;
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The dreams that charm'd me when a child,
Still linger with me yet,
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Sweet Ellie Rhee, so dear to me,
Is lost forever more;
Our home was down in Tennessee.
Before dis cruel war.
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