You, Four Walls, Wall Not In My Heart!

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Title:     You, Four Walls, Wall Not In My Heart!
Author: Josephine Preston Peabody [More Titles by Peabody]

You, Four Walls,
Wall not in my heart!
When the lovely night-time falls
All so welcomely,
Blinding, sweet hearth-fire,
Light of heart's desire,
Blind not, blind not me!
Unto them that weep apart,--
While you glow, within,
Wreckt, despairing kin,--
Dark with misery:
--Do not blind my heart!

_You, close Heart!
Never hide from mine
Worlds that I divine
Through thy human dearness.
O beloved Nearness,
Hallow all I understand
With thy hand-in-hand;--
All the lights I seek,
With thy cheek-to-cheek;
All the loveliness I loved apart._

_You, heart's Home!--
Wall not in my heart._

[The end]
Josephine Preston Peabody's poem: You, Four Walls, Wall Not In My Heart!

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