The welcome home (Richard Haking)

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• (Posted 2023-10-23)  CPDL #76573:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 325 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The welcome home
Composer: Richard Haking
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Dear is the hour we reach our home,
Where loved ones haste to greet us:
Where each one wishes as we come
To be the first to meet us.

Oh! when Time has spread his withering blight,
His joys been but professing,
How dear to turn from the world’s hard fight,
And cling to home’s true blessing!

Oh! blissfully sweet is the word called “home”
To the way-worn soul as its welcomes come!

When ’mid the storms of Life’s rough toils,
E’en Hope herself’s benighted;
Ah! then we think upon Love’s smiles,
Those eyes that beam love-lighted.

Then we sorrow that we prized not more
That love indeeds outspoken,
And feel that even India’s priceless store
Could never gain that token.

Oh! blissfully sweet is the word called “home”
To the way-worn soul as its welcomes come!