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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 13.

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Home, Sweet Home

By John Howard Payne

'Mid pleasures and palaces tho 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, seek thru the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile, And the cares of a mother to soothe and beguile! Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam, But give, O give me the pleasures of home! Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; O give me my lowly thatched cottage again! The birds singing gayly, that came at my call— Give me them, with the peace of mind dearer than all. Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home! 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! There's no place like home! —John Howard Payne.