The Dearest Spot of Earth Is Home ~ A Hymn

The Family Gathering by Eugenio Zampighi

The dearest spot of earth to me

  Is home, sweet home!

The fairy land I long to see

  Is home, sweet home!

There how charmed the sense of hearing!

There where love is so endearing!

All the world is not so cheering

  As home, sweet home!

I've taught my heart the way to prize

  My home, sweet home!

I've learned to look with lover's eyes

  On home, sweet home!

There, where vows are truly plighted!

There, where hearts are so united!

All the world besides I've slighted

  For home, sweet home.

~W.T. Wrighton, Composer

1857