A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

Being Suggestions of the Various Styles in which an Old Theme might have been Treated by Certain Metrical Composers.

FANTASIA.

I.

The Original Theme, as John Howard Payne Wrote it:

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,

Which, seek through the world, is not met with elsewhere.

Home, Home! Sweet, Sweet Home!

There's no place like Home!