The song posted by Peace above is called MANUSCRIPT. It's on Al Stewart's album "Zero She Flies," 1970, and on several later compilations.


I found the following lines quoted in Sean O'Casey's "Pictures in the Hallway," 1942, the second of his 6-volume autobiography:

Homeward once more, homeward once more,
The good ship is speeding for old Erin's shore;
The exile's returning, no longer to roam,
But to end his career in his own native home.

Mrsmac already posted a more complete version in this thread.