The phrase ‘The heart that can feel for another’ comes from both a ballad and an artwork named ‘Jack Steadfast’. The hand coloured engraving Jack Steadfast; or The heart that can feel for another was published in 1807 by Cruikshank, Isaac Robert (1789-1956) & George (1972-1878). The ballad is as follows:

Jack Steadfast and I were both messmates at sea, And plough’d half the world o’er together, And many hot battles encounter’d have we, Strange climates and all kinds of weather.

But Seamen, you know, are inur’d to hard gales, Determin’d to stand by each other;

And the boast of a tar, wheresoever he sails, Is the heart that can feel for another.

When oft suspended ‘twixt water and sky, And death yawn’d on all sides around us, Jack Steadfast and I scorn’d to murmur or sigh, For danger could never confound us,

Smooth seas and rough billows, to us were the same, Convinc’d we must brave each and t’other:

And like jolly sailors, in life’s chequer’d game,

Is the heart that can feel for another.

Thus smiling at peril, at sea or on shore, We box the old compass right cheerly;

Toss the can, boys, about-and a word or two more, Yes, drank to the girls we loved dearly.

For sailors, pray mind me, tho’ strange kind of fish, Love the girls just as dear as their mother;

And what’s more, they love, what I hope you ail wish, Is the heart that can feel for another.