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Showing posts with label hospitality. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

A Parting Guest

A Parting Guest

 What delightful hosts are they -- 
 Life and Love! 
Lingeringly I turn away, 
 This late hour, yet glad enough 
They have not withheld from me 
 Their high hospitality.
 
So, with face lit with delight 
 And all gratitude, I stay 
 Yet to press their hands and say, 
"Thanks.
 -- So fine a time! Good night.
"

by James Whitcomb Riley
found on
http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/18941/a_parting_guest