Love and Friendship (Brontë)

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Love and Friendship (Brontë)
by Emily Brontë
From Selections from the literary remains of Emily and Anne Brontë (1850) and reprinted in The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë (1908).


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Love is like the wild rose-briar;
  Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
  But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,
  Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again,
  And who will call the wild-briar fair?

Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,
  And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That, when December blights thy brow,
  He still may leave thy garland green.

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