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SWEET HOME OF MY CHILE-HOOD. 
 
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 By Thalma Thome. 
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 OSBOKN, OHIO: 
 
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 SWEET HOME OF MY CHILDHOOD, 
 
 HERE'ER I may wander, where'er I may roam, 
 
 -*-i My thoughts still return to my happiest home; 
 
 Ulkene er I grow weary 'tis there I would rest: 
 Sweet home of my childhood in memory lissi : 
 
 P.weary of life and of toiling in vain, 
 I long for the days of my childhood again, 
 Ulhen life- had a charm that forever has Sown, 
 Pn innocent pleasure that now is unkncwn. 
 
"r friendship so faithful, unselSsh, and true 
 
 ~; thai u?k:ch r ond memory brings io my view. 
 The friendship of childhood, that ever endears 
 The playmates and friends of my earliest years 
 
 --- far dearer to me as I roam. 
 Is memory's picture of mother at home: 
 P,nd when 1 am weary I long but to rest, 
 Ince more as a child, folded close to her breast 
 
 What hand like a mother's can soothe or caress 1 
 Ulhat lips like a mother's to kiss and to bless! 
 Then let the remembrance of childhood's sweet home 
 Be with me forever, though far I may roam, 
 
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