Post by davidkingmartin on May 21, 2008 16:31:17 GMT -5
COMING HOME
Bury me,please, in Ludgvan earth
Near where I used to play
Outside the two-room school which serves
Another use today.
Where many of my folk have lain
For centuries at rest
My ashes will, I humbly pray,
In that same earth be blest.
I shall not hear the sea-birds cry,
I shall not feel the rain.
Enough to lie in Ludgvan earth:
I have come home again.
Joseph Henry Martin, 1914-1998, buried with wife Ruth and parents Joseph and Sarah, Ludgvan.
Copyright 2008 D K Martin.
Joe wrote several "versions" of this that I have in manuscript.
D.
