No Words More Sweet than "Home" and "Love"

Home And Love by Robert William Service

Just Home and Love! the words are small 

Four little letters unto each; 

And yet you will not find in all 

The wide and gracious range of speech

Two more so tenderly complete: 

When angels talk in Heaven above, 

I'm sure they have no words more sweet 

Than Home and Love.

Just Home and Love! it's hard to guess 

Which of the two were best to gain; 

Home without Love is bitterness; 

Love without Home is often pain.

No! each alone will seldom do; 

Somehow they travel hand and glove: 

If you win one you must have two, 

Both Home and Love.

And if you've both, well then I'm sure 

You ought to sing the whole day long; 

It doesn't matter if you're poor
With these to make divine your song.

And so I praisefully repeat, 

When angels talk in Heaven above, 

There are no words more simply sweet 

Than Home and Love.

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T.S. Eliot once disparagingly called Robert William Services's work as "appealing only to the commonest collective emotion". I would describe it more as "free of literary pretensions'.

I'm not a big fan of poetry. There are many poems that I do love, but I suppose I'm one of those people with 'common emotion' and cannot tolerate long-winded poems that only serve as a vanity exercise for the poet. I can appreciate that poetry is a difficult art to master, but that still doesn't stop me rolling my eyes at a lot of them. But then who am I to say, as of poetry I know nowt, for a poet I am not. :)

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The Cookie Jar Group's Annual Summer Garden Party is here!

The event runs from July 27^th to August 11^th, and involves a number of SL Home and Garden designers. Each have put up a number of their items for discounted price especially for for Cookie Jar Group members PLUS a free gift from each store. The group is free to join…so GO! More information on The Cookie Jar Group blog.

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From ::A&A:: Life is Your Creativity ::Blog::Marketplace::Flickr::Facebook:: (Join the VIP Group inworld for 250L AND receive 250L store credit to spend each month) Lilac & Twigs Pottery Crock (FREE for Cookie Jar members til Aug 11th!) Mesh Antique Love Blocks (100L 50L for Cookie Jar members til Aug 11th!) Orange Buttlerfly Jar (200L 50L for Cookie Jar members til Aug 11th, YOU NEED THIS!) Blue Gingham Wreath (150L 50L for Cookie Jar members til Aug 11th) Happiness Plaque (Dark) – inworld, or MP link here Beautiful Soul Set (table, birdcage, photo frame, window-frame, bird wall decal)-inworld, or MP link here
From {what next}: Fleeftone Acoustic Guitar (not for sale, part of wearable item from a furniture) Decorated Row of Books Decorated Row of Books box	From !!Follow Us!! Display clothes ladies V2 Maze game (July Group Gift)
Everything else: Santa Fe Couch by End of Daze Round Paper Lamp from Trompe Loeil (gacha item, 25L per play!) Swan Lake music box and books by Ruca Tease (group gift, scripted for 10 seconds of Swan Lake). Garden Candle Trio by =Mirage= Arabian Treasure Company (Free item for Cookie Jar members) Pink Fabric Songbirds from {vespertine} (June Arcade Gacha) Trinity Thigh High Boots from Hollyhood