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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455705" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas to a Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">AH! think no more that Life's delusive joys,<br>Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim;<br>Or wound a heart, that scarce a wish employs,<br>For age to censure, or discretion blame. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tir'd of the world, my weary mind recoils<br>From splendid scenes, and transitory joys;<br>From fell Ambition's false and fruitless toils,<br>From hope that flatters, and from bliss that cloys. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With THEE, above the taunts of empty pride,<br>The rigid frowns to youthful error given;<br>Content in solitude my griefs I'll hide,<br>Thy voice my counsellorthy smiles my Heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With thee I'll hail the morn's returning ray,<br>Or climb the dewy mountain bleak and cold; <br>On the smooth lake observe the sun-beams play,<br>Or mark the infant flow'rs their buds unfold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pleas'd will I watch the glitt'ring queen of Night<br>Spread her white mantle o'er the face of Heaven;<br>And from thy converse snatch the pure delight,<br>By truth sublime to MENTAL feeling given. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as the varying seasons glide away,<br>This moral lesson shall my bosom learn,<br>How TIME steals on, while blissful hours decay<br>Like fleeting shadows;NEVER to return. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when I see thy warm unspotted mind,<br>Torn with the wound of broken FRIENDSHIP'S dart;<br>When sickness chills thy breast with pangs unkind,<br>Or ruthless sorrow preys upon thy heart; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The task be MINE to soothe thee to repose,<br>To check the sigh, and wipe the trickling tear,<br>Or with soft SYMPATHY to share thy woes;<br>O, proudest rapture of the soul sincere ! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ye who flutter thro' the vacant hour,<br>Where tasteless Apathy's empoison'd wand<br>Arrests the vagrant sense with numbing pow'r,<br>While vanquish'd REASON bows at her command. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O say, what bliss can transient Life bestow,<br>What balm so grateful to the social mind,<br>As FRIENDSHIP'S voicewhere gentle precepts flow<br>From the blest source of sentiment refin'd? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When FATE'S stern hand shall close my weeping eye,<br>And seal, at length, my wand'ring spirit's doom;<br>Oh! may kind FRIENDSHIP catch my parting sigh, <br>And cheer with HOPE the terrors of the TOMB.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Darby+Robinson">Mary Darby Robinson</a><div class=q>
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Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim;
Or wound a heart, that scarce a wish employs,
For age to censure, or discretion blame. 

Tir'd of the world, my weary mind recoils
From splendid sce..."></div>
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