Home thru the Great Cottonwoods

"Home thru the Great Cottonwoods"

8x10 in oil on stretched canvas

"Home and Love"

A Poem by Robert William Service

"Just Home and Love! the words are small

Four little letters unto each:

And yet you will not find in all

The wide gracious range of speech

Two more so tenderly complete;

When angels talk in heaven above,

I'm sure they have no words more sweet 

Than Home and Love.

Just Home and Love! it's hard to guess

Which of the two were best to gain

Home without love is bitterness:

Love without home is often pain.

each alone will seldom do:

Somehow they travel hand and glove;

If you win one you must have two,

Both Home and Love.

And if you've both, well then I'm sure

You ought to sing the whole day long:

It doesn't matter if you're poor

With these to make divine your song.

And so I praisefully repeat,

When angels talk in heaven above,

There are no words more simply sweet

Than Home and Love." - Robert William Service