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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.