Thoughts of home (Robert Stewart Taylor)

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• (Posted 2023-12-13)  CPDL #78165:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 427 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Thoughts of home
Composer: Robert Stewart Taylor
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1865 Root & Cady
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English text

My weary heart is wandering home,
Is wandering home tonight;
I join again the merry group,
Around the hearthstone bright;
The gentle light of loving eyes
Illumes the place once more;
Again are sung the social songs,
Oft sung in days of yore.

My soul has leaped the mist of years,
As sunbeams leap the cloud;
Of brothers, sisters, mother, home,
Thick thronging memories crowd;
I hear their voices soft and low,
I see their faces fair;
I bend again the willing knee
With them at evening prayer.

I stray again thro’ old time haunts,
I used so well to know,
The field, the grove, the crystal spring,
Whence health and sweetness flow;
I seek the bank where oft I’ve sat,
To watch the sunset’s blaze,
And hear the bird choir sing to God
Their hymn of grateful praise.

It is but rare such visions come,
Such holy dreams of home;
As fast from boyhood’s well loved scenes
My wayward footsteps roam.
Then let me feel its deepest spell,
And drink its sweetest joy;
Forget awhile all else beside,
And be again a boy.