Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: V. The Home | | Home | | Leonidas of Alexandria |
| | From the Greek by Robert Bland
CLING to thy home! if there the meanest shed | |
| Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head, | |
| And some poor plot, with vegetables stored, | |
| Be all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,— | |
| Unsavory bread, and herbs that scattered grow | 5 |
| Wild on the river brink or mountain brow, | |
| Yet e’en this cheerless mansion shall provide | |
| More heart’s repose than all the world beside. | | | | |
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