<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117573" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Friend of My Youth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We met in childhood—careless met,<br>Nor wept to think that we must sever;<br>We parted with no fond regret—<br>No tear lest we should part forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our souls had not commingled then;<br>The wreath of Friendship had not bound us;<br>We knew not we should meet again,—<br>And yet our parting did not wound us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again we met—long years have flown,<br>The sun of youth has risen o'er us,<br>And friends we loved have smiled and gone,<br>And changing scenes have pass'd before us.—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We meet!—but not again to part,<br>Without one transient pang of mourning;<br>Oh no! the burning tear would start,<br>At thought of joys no more returning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we have stray'd at silent eve,<br>Beneath the crescent brightly beaming,<br>And social converse loved to weave,<br>Around the warm hearth cheerful gleaming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We yet may part—in distant land<br>Afar to roam we know not whither—<br>But still be Friendship's flowery band<br>The wreath that twines our souls together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117573" data-title="To A Friend of My Youth de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="We met in childhood—careless met,/Nor wept to think that we must sever;/We parted with no fond regret—/No tear lest we should part forever./Our souls had not commingled then;/The wreath of Friendship had not bound us;/We knew not we should mee..."></div> </div> </div>

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