A SONG OF FRIENDSHIP
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A SONG OF FRIENDSHIP
We have come nearer, friend!
The thought of each, to each
Shines clearer, dearer, friend!
All doubts have fled away;
Strange deeds and baffling speech
Now are clear as day.
Naught between us, naught
To hurt or separate;
No battles to be fought.
Friends now, in more than name;
Forever friends, our fate—
Tho' never again the same.
We have come nearer, friend!
Would it were not so late,
But all the dearer, friend!
What sorcery, new and strange,
What word, what mystic token,
Has worked the wondrous change?
No word of secret powers,
Nothing sung or spoken,
Only the near, dear hours
Under the starry sky;
Trust and peace unbroken;
Silence, and a sigh.
