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Tune-"Guidnight, and joy be wi' you a'."
Adieu! a heart-warm fond adieu; / Dear brothers of the mystic tie! / Ye favoured, enlighten'd few, / Companions of my social joy; / Tho' I to foreign lands must hie, / Pursuing Fortune's slidd'ry ba'; / With melting heart, and brimful eye, / I'll mind you still, tho' far awa.