Home Of My Youth (The Peri)
James Gaspard Maeder
1.
Gayer the scene than
my thoughts e're could show it,
Clearer its streams
and wilder its mountains;
Bright are the landscapes that
nature form'd round it,
But brighter the eyes
that still flash on its fountains.
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!
2.
Home of my youth,
my fancy would paint it,
Pure as in childhood its
charms were before me,
Its green carpets spread,
its vineyards and flow'rs
And the diadem'd heaven the
angels there o'er me
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!
Home of my youth!