Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
"The Creatures on My Mind" in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), p. 65
“An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,
Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.”
Home, Sweet Home (1822), from the opera of "Clari, the Maid of Milan", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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