WHERE S HOME?

 

                WHERE S HOME?             

            There is no simple definition of home. According to one of them  it is where you live, your house, apartment, also the place where you feel most comfortable, loved and protected. Another definition says it is the house or flat that you live in, especially with your family.

            The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household is also called home.

            Your hometown is that where you lived in a family you were born in even if you are not living there today.   

            A house is a building designed for human habitation, providing shelter, security, and comforts like bedrooms, kitchen, living room, bathrooms, and space for the benefit of  other family activities.

            An English poet and engraver Charles Swain (1801-1874) who was also an honorary professor of poetry at the Manchester Royal Institution wrote a poem with the title: HOME IS WHERE THERE IS ONE TO LOVE US.

            Here he is what he said in that famous poem:

“Home’s not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung and gilded:
Home is where affection calls,
Filled with shrines the heart hath builded!

Home! go watch the faithful dove,
Sailing ‘neath the heaven above us;
Home is where there’s one to love!
Home is where there’s one to love us!

Home’s not merely roof and room,
It needs something to endear it;
Home is where the heart can bloom,
Where there’s some kind lip to cheer it!
What is home with none to meet,
None to welcome, none to greet us?
Home is sweet, -and only sweet-
Where there’s one we love to meet us!

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G.R.Kanwal

29 January 2026