CHORUS.

Dear friends that are round me, haste with looks delighted,

Days long vanish’d and gone, come to my heart.

Dear home of my childhood, once again united,

Never, never again from thee I’ll part.

Father, in the warm grasp

I feel thy welcome,

Oh, from love’s tender clasp

Ne’er let me fly;

Mother, fondly again

Thou dost enfold me;

Tears I can not restrain

Burst from mine eye.

_Chorus._--Dear friends that are round me, &c.

Brother, still is thy brow

Noble as ever,

As I look on thee now,

How swells my heart!

Sister, gentle and kind,

Close to me clinging;

Now in love we are twined

No more to part.

_Chorus._--Dear friends that are round me, &c.