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This house...wasn't mine

The hearth was built

By another's design

But life has wrought 

More than I bought

Within these walls

Music, illness, laughter, tears,

Joys and sorrows, anger, fears,

Death, love.

Many seasons

By the fireside

Have altered this place

Where I reside

Pet companions, meadowlark's song

Draw me back wherever I roam

To know the bliss of this, my home.