# Home Song

Language: en  
Author: \-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, April/May/June 2007, Number 2  
Source pages: 36  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/article-a95a8fdd-8aa8-44b6-a9f9-fd83772d1706/>
Original PDF: 2007\-04\-06\-remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, April/May/June 2007](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2007-04/>)

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**Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;  
Home\-keeping hearts are happiest;  
For those that wander they know not where  
Are full of trouble and full of care;  
To stay at home is best\.**

**Weary and homesick and distressed,  
They wander east, they wander west,  
And are baffled and beaten and blown about  
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;  
To stay at home is best\.**

**Then stay at home, my heart, and rest;  
The bird is safest in its nest;  
O'er all that flutter their wings and fly  
A hawk is hovering in the sky;  
To stay at home is best\.**

*\-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*