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House & Home

 

A house holds shelter

from the storm,

When love comes in

a home is born.

 

A house holds bed

and board and rest,

When friends come in

the home is blessed.

 

 ___________________________

 

by Winnie Apple Newton

Written 1979

…on the occasion of a friend’s housewarming in
Blowing Rock, North Carolina.