Home Sweet Home

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 980  172c 488
 

 
 
same bookmark with different coloured silk words
 
 
Bookmark of with words and formal country house
 
 
Bookmark of with words and formal country house
the image of this bookmark
kindly donated by
Georg Hartong, The Netherlands
Words:

 
image of leaves with small red flowers

HOME, SWEET HOME

image of leaves with small red flowers

 

 

 

 

image of formal country house

 

 

 

'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,
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE,
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

AN EXILE FROM HOME, PLEASURE
DAZZLES IN VAIN,
OH: GIVE ME MY LOWLY THATCHED
COTTAGE AGAIN,
THE BIRDS SINGING GAILY THAT
CAME AT MY CALL;
GIVE ME THEM, WITH THAT PEACE
OF MIND DEARER THAN ALL.

HOME, HOME, SWEET, SWEET HOME,
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE,
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

Size of Silk:
cm long by cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:

Signed: "T.STEVENS. COVENTRY" on back at pointed end:

 



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