<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Particular Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">“We took sweet counsel together, we went to the<br>house of the Lord in company.”——Psalms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We've sat beside the forest stream,<br>And watch'd the bright wave rippling by,<br>Now flashing back the summer beam,<br>Then dark'ning like a half-shut eye,<br>As whispering to the joyous breeze,<br>Down closer bent the shadowing trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy hand was clasp'd in mine, my friend,<br>And heart to heart was answering then;<br>Although, perchance, our tones might send<br>No echo down the rocky glen—<br>Or if we spoke, 't was language fraught<br>With all the others’ voiceless thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was sweet to linger there,<br>Beneath a sky so purely blue,<br>And breathe the gather'd sweets, the air<br>Had stolen from flowers it wander'd through—<br>How could there come a thought of ill<br>Amidst a scene so calm and still!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet, a holier chord than this,<br>Around our breasts its power hath twined;<br>And though, perchance, those hours of bliss<br>May fade, like moonlight, from the mind,<br>Can love aside be careless cast,<br>O'er which the breath of prayer hath past?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, no! and though not oft we meet,<br>Within the house of worship now,—<br>The hours may come, less calm and sweet<br>Than those beneath the greenwood bough;<br>Those hearts may ne'er be wholly riven,<br>Which side by side have bow'd to Heaven</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=117601" data-title="To a Particular Friend de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="“We took sweet counsel together, we went to the/house of the Lord in company.”——Psalms./We've sat beside the forest stream,/And watch'd the bright wave rippling by,/Now flashing back the summer beam,/Then dark'ning like a half-shut eye,/As..."></div> </div> </div>

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