As branches in a livèn tree;

Whatever you've a-done to mine

Is all a-done to me.

Oh! when the new-born child, the e'th's new guest,

Do lie an' heave his little breast,

In pillow'd sleep, wi' sweetest breath

O' sinless days drough rwosy lips a-drawn;

Then, if a han' can smite en in his dawn

O' life to darksome death,

Oh! where can Pity ever vwold