<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397752" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Christmas (Tuckerman sonnet)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after A. E. Housman) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Home are the soldiers, they are home and free, <br>they are home from the far off battlefield<br>never to a man’s will again to yield<br>home with loved ones, some friends to see.<br>Home is the farmer from the working field<br>where many acres of land lies prepared, <br>he is at the place where he wants to be<br>safe under God’s almighty constant shield</div><div style="margin:10px 0">free from all kinds of dark iniquity <br>tranquillity is in the open veldt, <br>the evening falls, twilight is at hand, <br>with his cattle all having being cared<br>and soldier’s dance with a happy band, <br>close the farmer’s wife is being held</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: XXII “Home is the sailor, home from sea” by A. E. Housman.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397752" data-title="Christmas (Tuckerman sonnet) de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after A. E. Housman) Home are the soldiers, they are home and free, they are home from the far off battlefield never to a man’s will again to yield home with loved ones, some friends to see. Home is the farmer from the working field where ma..."></div> </div> </div>

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