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Daily Poem: Home Sweet Home

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Real Estate Agent with Chinowth & Cohen Realty

 

                                                           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 skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, sought  through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.

 
Home, home, sweet, sweet home!
be it ever so humble, 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

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;
Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again!
The birds singing gaily, that come at  my call --
Give me them -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all!

If I return home overburdened with care

The heart's dearest solace I'm sure to meet there;

The bliss I experience whenever I come

Makes no other place seem like that of sweet home.

 

Farewell, peaceful cottage! Farewell, happy home;

Forever I'm doomed a poor exile to roam

This poor aching heart must be laid in the tomb,

Ere it cease to regret the endearments of home


 
John Howard Payne

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