Reminds me of "Do They Miss Me At Home" - popular during the Civil War.
It's recorded on the "More Songs" Soundtrack album from the movie "Gettysburg".

"Do they miss me at home; Do they miss me?
"Twould be an assurance most dear;
to know that some Loved One is sighing,
and saying 'I wish he were here'...

Too few of the group at the fire-side
are thinking of me as I roam;
Oh yes; 'twould be joy beyond measure
to know that they miss me at ho-ome;
to know that they miss me at home."

(Or something like that - going from memory here)

If anyone is interested and it's not already on the DT (I can't imagine that it would not be in Levy) let me know & I can post the lyrics.

It's one of my favorite Reenacting pieces, and goes well with the gut-strung parlor guitar, an instrument which implies "roaming", I think, a bit more than a piano-forte.
The lyrics veritably ooze early Victorian sentiment and imagery;
"...When the candles are lit in the Parlor;
and the stars in the calm auzure sky...".