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POEMS.
FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING.
I love thee, my friend, with the truest affection;
Thy sympathy falls like a balm o'er the heart;
Thy friendship is lovely; thy kind disposition
Will brighten my life till from earth I depart.
Oh, could I have met thee in happier moments,
When this earth was so glorious,—too beauteous to last;
And this life was an Eden of loveliest promise;
Now gone from me forever! Farewell to the past!
When this earth was so glorious,—too beauteous to last;
And this life was an Eden of loveliest promise;
Now gone from me forever! Farewell to the past!
And left me in sadness and darkness to linger,
Till call'd to my Maker not far o'er the way;
Trusting ere my life's ended a light will yet glimmer,
And brighten forever into beautiful day.
Till call'd to my Maker not far o'er the way;
Trusting ere my life's ended a light will yet glimmer,
And brighten forever into beautiful day.
