quote · Legacy record
I have a dream—that some day I shall go At break of dawn adown a rainy street, A grey old street, and I shall come in the end To the little house I have known, and stand; and you, Mother of mine, who watch and wait for me. Will you not hear my footstep in the street, And, as of old, be ready at the door, To give me rest again?... I shall come home.
I have a dream—that some day I shall go At break of dawn adown a rainy street, A grey old street, and I shall come in the end To the little house I have known, and stand; and you, Mother of mine, who watch and wait for me. Will you not hear my footstep in the street, And, as of old, be ready at the door, To give me rest again?... I shall come home.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Author or tradition
- H. D. Lowry (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 29 · printed citation: H. D. Lowry. · compiler notes excluded
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