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Friendship, thou charmer of the mind, Thou sweet deluding ill, The brightest minute mortals find, And sharpest hour we feel. Fate has divided all our shares Of pleasure and of pain; In love the comforts and the cares Are mixed and joined again. But whilst in floods our sorrow rolls, And drops of joy are few, This dear delight of mingling souls Serves but to swell our woe. Oh! why should bliss depart in haste, And friendship stay to moan? Why the fond passion cling so fast, When every joy is gone? Yet never let our hearts divide, Nor death dissolve the chain; For love and joy were once allied, And must be joined again.
Friendship, thou charmer of the mind, Thou sweet deluding ill, The brightest minute mortals find, And sharpest hour we feel. Fate has divided all our shares Of pleasure and of pain; In love the comforts and the cares Are mixed and joined again. But whilst in floods our sorrow rolls, And drops of joy are few, This dear delight of mingling souls Serves but to swell our woe. Oh! why should bliss depart in haste, And friendship stay to moan? Why the fond passion cling so fast, When every joy is gone? Yet never let our hearts divide, Nor death dissolve the chain; For love and joy were once allied, And must be joined again.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 242 · printed citation: Watts · subject: FRIENDSHIP
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