Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Little Book of Modern Verse. 1917.
Josephine Preston Peabody
The House and the Road
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The little House says, Stay:
And O, it’s bonny here at home,
But I must go away.
Would seek and turn and know;
And forth I must, to learn the things
The little Road would show!
And journey while I may,
Though heart be sore for the little House
That had no word but Stay.
Your child could ever know
Why a little House would have you stay,
When a little Road says, Go.