"SWEET HOME."
*.«§» 'Well done, little Jane,' « English household strain.' «w me than ' Banks and Braes,' a among fair Scotland's laya■wme, sweet home,' those genial words 9 wan wordiest songs of birds ; Wft i' where love's white flag unfurled, «the vices of the world; IBme, where man retires to rest, 1 and care and thought oppressed ; ™>an's smiles and children's eyes, PJtimh Virtue's halcyon dyes, ?paw fancies never come, "»"acred joys of home ; Kg sne5 ne strives by laws divine, | and action may combine, ™» ?' as home should me, n«. v TO°ught miseries free ; mS hnmßn graces glow, °"7irost-work on pure snow, weet m Summer bowers, 11**? 6? in Iresh'ning showers ; J! we heart's best feelings rise to the skies. >-A en thosß blest words come, Whankful for a home. |™ % instrument again, ■ "»ce more the old-world strain. _ J. B.
■J^aJ' said the youngest darling, J Wed to read and I rode.'
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1823, 18 December 1875, Page 7 (Supplement)
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