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 At length his lonely cot appears in view,
 Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
  Th' expectant read more 
 At length his lonely cot appears in view,
 Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. 
 Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
 Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.  
 Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
 Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter. 
"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
"Home" is any four walls that enclose the right person.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and read more
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes read more
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.
 No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open 
to execute any civil process; though read more 
 No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open 
to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public 
safety supersedes the private. 
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?
 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a 
lodge in a garden read more 
 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a 
lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 
 The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as 
well for his defence against read more 
 The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as 
well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his 
repose.