Bib Ballads

<h3><SPAN name="COMING_HOME" id="COMING_HOME"></SPAN>COMING HOME</h3> <div class="cpoem"> <p>Prepare for noise, you quiet walls!<br/> You floors, get set for heavy falls!<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Frail dishes, hide away!</span><br/> Get ready for some scratches, stairs!<br/> Clean table linen, say your prayers!<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The kid comes home today!</span><br/> <br/> For three long weeks you've been, O House,<br/> As noiseless as the well-known mouse,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">As silent as the tomb.</span><br/> And you've stayed neat, with none on hand<br/> To track your floors with mud and sand,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To muss your ev'ry room.</span><br/> <br/> The ideal place for work you've been,<br/> But soon a Bedlam once again,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A mess, a wreck. But say,</span><br/> I wonder will it make us mad.<br/> No, House, I'll bet we both are glad<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The kid comes home today.</span><br/></p> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/040.jpg" width-obs="433" height-obs="600" alt="" title="decoration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />