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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 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! there’s no place like Home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;
Oh! give me my lonely thatched cottage again!
The birds, singing gayly, that came 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! 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 me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home!
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 )
John Howard Payne (1792-1852) was born in New York City. He became an actor and also a writer of plays and operas. He died at Tunis, Africa, to which place he had been sent as United States consul. When Jenny Lind,the celebrated Swedish singer, visited the United States in 1850, she sang in Washington before a large audience. John Howard Payne sat in one of the boxes, and at the close of her wonderful concert the singer turned toward the box in which the poet sat, and sang “Home, Sweet Home” with so much sweetness and power that many of the audience cried like children.
humble : not great, but nice
charm : having the quality of being liked by many people
soothe : to make someone feel better
roam : to travel with no direction
Answer the following questions.
1) Which words in the first stanza are repeated
2) In the second stanza, what is “cottage” contrasted with?
3) What is it that really makes home beautiful?
4) What great service do our mothers perform?
5) How does the love of home affect the nation?