Sickness nor pain, their hearts could disengage:
Each had immediate confidence; a friend
Both now beheld, on whom they might depend:
“Now is there one to whom I can express
My nature’s weakness, and my soul’s distress.”
Allen look’d up, and with impatient heart -
“Let me not lose thee - never let us part:
So heaven this comfort to my sufferings give,
It is not all distress to think and live.”
Thus Allen spoke - for time had not removed