Hills of Home

By Witter Bynner

1881-1968


Name me no names for my disease,
         With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
         But homesick unto death --

Homesick for hills that I had known,
         For brooks that I had crossed,
Before I met this flesh and bone
         And followed and was lost. . . .

And though they break my heart at last,
         Yet name no name of ills.
Say only, "Here is where he passed,
         Seeking again those hills."

DayPoems Poem No. 1511
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