Jennifer and Tammy are highlighting 100 yr. old homes in Riverside this year...and celebrating with their owners by focusing on those homes in blogs, articles, and videos throughout the year. Please let us know if you have a 100 year old home you would like us to celebrate! In line with our focus on 100 year old homes this year, we hope you will enjoy this poem.
Fulfillment
By Frederick W. Branch
The man who built this house of mine
A hundred years ago
With christian doors of smooth, clear pine
and chestnut timbers, row on row
Whose oxen hauled the brick and lime
Who squared the hearth's broadstone
Could not forsee that fate and time
Would someday make it all my own.
Of course he knew that it would stay
Here on its sturdy sills,
Long after his last spring should lay
Her fragrant mourning on the hills
So even if he did not know
Just who its owners were to be
I'll still maintain that years ago
He planned and built this house for me.
