Some Day I’ll Wander Back Again

Some day I’ll wander back again,

To where the old home stands,

Beneath the old tree down the lane

Afar in other lands.

Its humble cot will shelter me

From every care and pain,

And life be sweet as sweet can be

When I get home again.

Some day I’ll wander back again,

To scenes so dear to me,

Where life, sweet infancy’s refrain

Beside a mother’s knee.

To live once more the golden hours

Of joyous, merry play,

No thorns but only sweetest flowers,

There in life’s merry way.

Some day I’ll wander back again,

To hearts so kind and true;

Whose gentle faces still remain

In memory’s cherished view.

No more my wayward feet will roam

Life’s troubled pathway o’er.

But in the light and love of home

I’ll rest me evermore.

-       (Exchange)