HOUSE-WITHOUT-ROOF

BY EDITH M. THOMAS

HOUSE-WITHOUT-ROOF my house I called,

Whether in palaces I dwelt

Or lowly cot, clay-paved and walled;

And, if at wayside cross I knelt,

Or if at shrine, for me the place

Dissolved into hypæthral space.

Beside the fire on mine own hearth,

While household hours slipped softly by,