In youthfu' bloom, love sparkling in her e'e, eye
Comes hame, perhaps to shew a braw new gown, fine
Or deposite her sair-won penny-fee, hard-won wages
To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.
With joy unfeign'd brothers and sisters meet,
An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: asks
The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet;
Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears; wonders
The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;