The House and the Road

I found the following poem in The Singing Leaves: A Book of Songs and Spells by Josephine Preston Peabody. The book was published in 1903 and is now within the public domain. This poem just seemed like such a lovely poem to capture the spirit of the travel journal and those who would seek to travel.

The House and the Road.

The little Road says Go,
The little House says Stay:
And O, it's bonny here at home,
But I must go away.

The little Road, like me,
Would seek and turn and know;
And forth I must, to learn the things
The little Road would show!

And go I must, my dears,
And journey while I may,
Though heart be sore for the little House
That had no word but Stay.

Maybe, no other way
Your child could ever know
Why a little House would have you stay,
When a little Road says, Go.