All hail! ye tender feelings dear!
The smile of love, the friendly tear,
The sympathetic glow!
Long since, this world's thorny ways
Had number'd out my weary days,
Had it not been for you!
Fate still has blest me with a friend,
In ev'ry care and ill;
And oft a more endearing band,
A tye more tender still.
It lightens, it brightens,
The tenebrisic scene,
To meet with, and greet with,
My DAVIE or my JEAN!