Homewood

 Come Home Soon Son

JohnClare Stokes

Many the time 

The family came

To visit little Lute

They would sit

On the porch

In the cool shade

Watching the traffic

Passing on the

Aaron Road waving

To Lute and family

Visiting from

Homewood

And Lute would take

Them to the garden

Proud was Earnest

His son was growing

Melon and squash

As they did back home

It was a lot like home

And every one remarked

How they would love

To retire here someday

All the family here in

One place again

Sitting in the Florida sun

 Mother Ethel would 

Look lovingly at Lute

Her youngest son

Telling him in the summer

Perhaps I shall again

Come 

You have such a lovely

Place

 Lute would wave from the porch

And bid the family

farewell

To return to Homewood

Forever there to dwell.