<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407926" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dulce Domum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AN OLD LATIN ODE.<br>SUNG ANNUALLY BY THE WlNCHESTER BOYS UPON<br>LEAVING COLLEGE AT THE VACATION. [Translated at the Request of DR. JOSEPH WARTON.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>LOV'D Companions, let us sing!<br>Wake the dear according string-<br>Come, with gladness fill the dome,<br>Pour the happy song of Home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, sweet Home! our steps are free;<br>Now, sweet Home! we fly to thee!<br>Let the vaulted roofs resound<br>Sacred Home, with blessings crown'd!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Learning, thorny are thy ways,<br>Thought is weary of the maze;<br>Let us seek awhile the goal<br>Where affection rests her soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.-Now, sweet Home, &c. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, O toiling Muse, repose;<br>Muse! the classic volume close:-<br>Bid the cares of study cease,<br>Give the vacant hours to peace!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.-Now, sweet Home, &c. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joyful with the smiling year,<br>We will smile, for Home is near!-<br>Strangers will our song repeat-<br>Strangers feel that Home is sweet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.-Now, sweet Home, &c. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bring, O bring th' impatient steed,<br>Let us to the threshold speed,<br>Where we shed the tear of bliss,<br>Where we meet a mother's kiss!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.-Now, sweet Home, &c. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Home of childhood! swell the strain,<br>While we hail thy gates again!<br>Why, Aurora, thus delay?<br>Slothful goddess, give the day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>CHORUS.-Now, sweet Home, &c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Helen+Maria+Williams">Helen Maria Williams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407926" data-title="Dulce Domum de Helen Maria Williams" data-description="AN OLD LATIN ODE. SUNG ANNUALLY BY THE WlNCHESTER BOYS UPON LEAVING COLLEGE AT THE VACATION. [Translated at the Request of DR. JOSEPH WARTON.] LOV'D Companions, let us sing! Wake the dear according string- Come, with gladness fill the dome, Pour..."></div> </div> </div>

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