Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling - Couverture souple

VlEN make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree. And the Four Winds that rule the earth The blow the smokes to me. A cross the high hills and the sea And all the changeful skies. The Four Wtjids blow the snx)ke to me Till the tears are in my eyes. Until the tears are in my eyes And my heart is wellnigh broke; For thinking on old memories That gather in the smoke. With every shift of every wind The homesick memories come. From every quarter of mankind Where I have made me a home. Four times afire against the cold And a roof against the rain Sorrow fourfold and joy fourfold The Four Winds brfug again! How can I answer which is best Of all the fires that burn? I have been too often host or guest At every fire in turn.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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