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'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. An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain, Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again; The birds singing gaily, that came at my call, Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.
'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. An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain, Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again; The birds singing gaily, that came at my call, Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.
Approximate author period: c. 1822 AD · industrial
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- J. Howard Payne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1822 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 414; printed byline: J. Howard Payne; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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