Home is Heaven

Oh home beloved, I don't remember

Your valleys fair and snowcapped mountains

Your peaceful hamlets, mid the trees

Your murmuring streams and crystal fountains

Kissed by the cool, soft, balmy breeze

Words cannot tell how well I love thee

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Nor speak my longing, when I roam

On foreign land or distant sea

As time rolls by, my heart grows fonder

And yearns more lovingly for thee

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My heart alone can cry to heaven

Where I was nurtured by thy side

In thy holy habitation

Did my spirit once reside

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Thou hast placed me here on earth

To do thy will, to toil and slumber

I have learned to call you father

Thru thy spirit without number

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Then at length when I've completed

All you sent me forth to do

Truth is reason; truth eternal

Let me come and dwell with you