'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark
Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come;
– from Don Juan Canto I, CXIII by Lord Byron
(Ed note: Every reading of Don Juan yields a new pleasurable discovery. Johnny wasn't in our lives when I first read Byron's poem so this passage did not leave a lasting impression. — sdh)