Don Juan 01-123
Canto the First

CXXIII

'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
     Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark
     Our coming, and look brighter when we come;
'T is sweet to be awaken'd by the lark,
     Or lull'd by falling waters; sweet the hum
Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds,
The lisp of children, and their earliest words.

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong