The Dream of Home (William Webster Pearson)

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• (Posted 2023-11-27)  CPDL #77628:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 641 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Dream of Home
Composer: William Webster Pearson
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1879 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Who has not felt how sadly sweet
     The dream of home, the dream of home,
Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet,
     When far o’er sea or land we roam?
Sunlight more soft may o’er us fall,
     To greener shores our bark may come;
But far more bright, more dear than all,
     That dream of home, that dream of home.

Ask of the sailor youth when far
     His light bark bounds o’er ocean's foam,
What charms him most, when evening’s star
     Smiles o’er the wave? to dream of home.
Fond thoughts of absent friends and loves
     At that sweet hour around him come;
His heart’s best joy where’er he roves,
     That dream of home, that dream of home.