ADDITIONAL VERSES TO HOME, SWEET HOME.

In the winter of 1833, John Howard Payne, the author of Home, Sweet Home, called upon an American lady, the wife of an eminent banker living in London, and presented to her a copy of the original, set to music, with the two following additional verses addressed to her:—

To us, in despite of the absence of years,

How sweet the remembrance of home still appears!

From allurements abroad, which but flatter the eye,

The unsatisfied heart turns, and says, with a sigh,

Home, home, sweet, sweet home!

There’s no place like home!

Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow,

But mine has been checkered with many a woe!

Yet, though different our fortunes, our thoughts are the same,

And both, as we think of Columbia, exclaim,

Home, home, sweet, sweet home! etc.