Song: Why Do The Houses Stand

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Title:     Song: Why Do The Houses Stand
Author: George MacDonald [More Titles by MacDonald]

Why do the houses stand
When they that built them are gone;
When remaineth even of one
That lived there and loved and planned
Not a face, not an eye, not a hand,
Only here and there a bone?
Why do the houses stand
When they who built them are gone?

Oft in the moonlighted land
When the day is overblown,
With happy memorial moan
Sweet ghosts in a loving band
Roam through the houses that stand--
For the builders are not gone.

[The end]
George MacDonald's poem: Song: Why Do The Houses Stand

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