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Saturday, September 16. 2023

Saturday Verse: John Howard Payne (1823)


This is a song for an opera, Clari. It came to mind after 8 hours in hospital yesterday repairing 3 hernias. Really nice to get home:


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 thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere



Home! Home!


Sweet, sweet home!


There's no place like home


There's no place like home!



An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain


Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again


The birds singing gaily that came at my call


And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all


Home, home, sweet, sweet home


There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

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Feel better soon. Been there done that and not much fun. A few weeks and you will be as good as new!
#1 Don on 2023-09-16 08:58 (Reply)
Just in case you're having trouble bending, I recommend a recliner or gravity chair for resting. I slept in one for a week until I could bend again.
#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-09-16 10:04 (Reply)
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3 hernias? Ooof. I have a bad abdominal hernia I've been putting off dealing with since there's no risk of strangulation and the doc absurdly implies it has something to do with my excess weight. Hope you do okay!
#3 Jerryskids on 2023-09-16 10:34 (Reply)
Home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill. I never knew what that meant until I came home from my first ship. Glad you got your hernias fixed.
#4 Robert Moffett (Link) on 2023-09-16 11:23 (Reply)

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