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Malcolm Humphrey

The first white frost in the meadow will be shining there to-day,
And the furrowed upland glinting warm beside the woodland way;
There, a bright face and a clear hearth will be waiting when I come,
And my heart is throbbing wildly for those distant hills of home.

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