 Understanding must precede intelligent action along any lines, and my reason – perhaps I would better say my justification – for writing "His Own Country" has been my hope and belief that it would bring some little considered phases of this menacing and mighty problem more clearly before the minds of readers who live remote from it, yet whose consent is necessary, as it should be in a democracy, to any adjustment of settlement of living conditions where the races are existing side by side.I want to go home To the dull old town With the shaded streets And the open square And the hill And the flatsAnd the house I love And the paths I know - I want to go home.If I can't go back To the happy days, Yet I can live Where their shadows lie, Under the trees And over the grass -I want to be there Where the joy was once.