Unknown "Country Home"
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08413.25 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Chippeawa Falls, WI Type: Envelope Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 envelope ; 13 x 8.3 cm. Order a Copy
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COUNTRY HOME.
I do not ask that city spires
May round my mansion rise,
But that my home may be where trees
Are pointing to the skies,
Where flows the silvery mountain rill,
With sweet and merry sound,
And the echo of the hunters gun
Shall through the woods resound.
I cannot love the city pomp,
Its fashion and its pride;
I had rather dwell in an humble cot
Upon the mountain side,
Where sweetly blows the shady tree,
The tulip and the rose
And where beside the rivulet,
The early violet grows.
I would not give my quiet home
Its happiness and health
For all the city palaces,
Its pleasure and its wealth,
I love to breath the mountain air,
And roam where all is free,
Let others choose a city Life,
But a Country life for me.
Mr. Charles Stilson
[Laclede Pa]
Linn County,
State of Missouri
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