I accept your offer of five dollars for my maiden effort in
Christmas cards with thanks, and will try my hand at
something more popular. I am not above liking to make a
"wide appeal," but the subject you propose is rather a
staggering one, because you accompany it with a phrase
lacking rhythm, and difficult to rhyme. You will at once
see, by running through the alphabet, that "roam" is the
only serviceable rhyme for "_home_," but the union of the
two suggests jingle or doggerel. I defy any minor poet when
furnished with such a phrase, to refrain from bursting at
once into:--
No matter where you travel, no matter where you roam,
You'll never dum-di-dum-di-dee
The folks back home.
Sincerely yours,
REBA LARRABEE.
P.S. On second thought I believe James Whitcomb Riley could
do it and overcome the difficulties, but alas! I have not
his touch!