Home, Sweet Home

[Henry]

Home, Sweet Home

 

 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there

Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

 

 

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain

Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage agai

The birds singing gayly, that come at my call

Give me them -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

 

 

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild

And feel that my mother now thinks of her child

As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door

Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

 

 

How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile

And the caress of a mother to soothe and beguile

Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam

But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home

Home, home, sweet, sweet home

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

 

 

To thee I'll return, overburdened with care

The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there

No more from that cottage again will I roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home

 

 

 

 

John Howard Payne

[Star]

Henry, this is so beautiful. It is one of my favorite poems. Thank you for sharing.