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'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 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.

Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Lord Byron
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1806 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 123.

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