Obedient and gentle, deservedly dear;
He was patient, obeying our will without force,
And he seemed like a friend, though he was but a horse.
How much we esteemed him we never can say,
And Dixie we named him. You took him away!
And sadly and truly we’ve missed him since then—
Oh, captain, do give us poor Dixie again.
If you have conquered one Dixie, be generous here;
Return us the other we all count so dear,
And we’ll say Captain Le Caron (and hold it so too)