"Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own—my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!..."

"We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together; And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's sw..."

"It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth, And it brooks wi' nae denial, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends..."