The Riverside song book/To stay at Home is best

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For other versions of this work, see Song: "Stay, Stay at Home, my Heart, and Rest.".
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I know not what the Future hath
The Riverside song book (1893)
To stay at Home is best
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, composed by A. ten Cate
The Fatherland
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
A. ten Cate.
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