<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homecoming</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandfather built, with his own hands<br>The house we children called our home.<br>A fine expanse of stone and brick, <br>a castle that was ours alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That was before the threatening storm<br>turned us into refugees<br>The howling wind, the battering surge<br>Let loose the Ocean's enmity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of our fine home scant trace remains: <br>Some stone and the foundation walls<br>Keepsakes and memories long displayed<br>Sadly we have lost them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No loss of life, no death to weep<br>But still a sense of loss pervades.<br>The certainty of Youth is gone<br>And fallen trees can give no shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll build again with our own hands<br>The house our children will call home.<br>I think, perhaps, on higher ground, <br>Where Ocean waves do seldom roam</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There we will make new memories<br>Those things we lost will matter not.<br>We have each other, that is enough.<br>We'll build our heaven on this spot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=420048" data-title="Homecoming de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Grandfather built, with his own hands The house we children called our home. A fine expanse of stone and brick, a castle that was ours alone. That was before the threatening storm turned us into refugees The howling wind, the battering surge Let..."></div> </div> </div>

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