The House and the Road

The House and the Road By Josephine Preston Peabody THE LITTLE Road says, Go, The little House says, Stay: And O, it’s bonny here at home, But I must go away.   The little Road, like me,         5 Would seek and turn and know; And forth I must, to learn the things The little Road would show!   And go I must, my dears, And journey while I may,         10 Though heart be sore for the little House That had no word but Stay.   Maybe, no other way Your child could ever know Why a little House would have you stay,         15 When a little Road says, Go.

The Trucker sent me this some months back.  How well we know the conflict between home and the road.  The Trucker is on the road to live, but he lives to come home.