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"Oh tell her I lie in Kirk-land fair,
And home shall never come."
(Unknown. The Twa Brothers (l. 39-40). . .
Oxford Book of Ballads, The. James Kinsley, ed. (1969) Oxford University Press.)
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All up and down the whole creation,
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for the old plantation,
And for the old folks at home.
(Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), U.S. songwriter. "Old Folks at Home," Firth, Pond & Co. (1851).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937); the original words are written in dialect: "de Swanee ribber" etc..)
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
(Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet. Frau Eva, in Demian, ch. 5 (1960).)
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flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author. "The Encantadas" (1854), sketch tenth, The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987).)
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Be thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home.
(Isaac Watts (1674-1748), British hymn writer. Our God, Our Help in Ages Past (l. 35-36). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. Ecce Homo, "Why I Am So Clever," sct. 5 (1888).)
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
(Alan Bleasdale (b. 1946), British playwright, novelist. Times (London, June 18, 1992).)
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I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter,
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. I Years had been from Home (l. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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