Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, <br />Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; <br />A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, <br />Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. <br />Home, home, sweet, sweet home! <br />There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! <br /> <br />An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; <br />Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! <br />The birds singing gayly, that come at my call -- <br />Give me them -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all! <br />Home, home, sweet, sweet home! <br />There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! <br /> <br />I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild, <br />And feel that my mother now thinks of her child, <br />As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door <br />Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. <br />Home, home, sweet, sweet home! <br />There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! <br /> <br />How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile, <br />And the caress of a mother to soothe and beguile! <br />Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam, <br />But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home. <br />Home, home, sweet, sweet home! <br />There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! <br /> <br />To thee I'll return, overburdened with care; <br />The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there; <br />No more from that cottage again will I roam; <br />Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. <br />Home, home, sweet, sweet, home! <br />There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home!<br /><br />John Howard Payne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/home-sweet-home/
