Be kind to each other

The night’s coming on,

When friend and when brother

By chance may be gone;

Then ‘midst our dejection’

How sweet to have earned 

The true recollection

Of kindness returned.



When day has departed,

And memory keeps

Her watch broken hearted,

When all the loved sleep,

Be kind to each other,

The night’s coming on,

When friend and brother

By chance may be gone,



Let falsehood assail not,

Nor envy disprove,

Let trifles prevail not

Against those you love.

Nor change with tomorrow,

Should fortune take wing -

The deeper the sorrow,

The closer the cling.



When day has departed,

And memory keeps

Her watch broken hearted,

When all the loved sleep,

Be kind to each other,

The night’s coming on,

When friend turned brother

By chance may be gone.