Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet'ner of life! and solder of society!
The Grave. R. BLAIR.
Friendship is the cement of two minds,
As of one man the soul and body is;
Of which one cannot sever but the other
Suffers a needful separation.
Revenge. G. CHAPMAN.
A friendship that like love is warm,
A love like friendship steady.
How Shall I Woo? T. MOORE.
Friendship's the image of
Eternity, in which there's nothing
Movable, nothing mischievous.
Endymion. J. LILLY.
Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
O the Joys, that came down shower-like,
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,
Ere I was old!
Youth and Age. S.T. COLERIDGE.
'T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.
Burial of the Dead. J. KEBLE.
I praise the Frenchman,[A] his remark was shrewd,
How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
Retirement. W. COWPER.
[Footnote A: La Bruyère, says Bartlett.]
Friendship's an abstract of love's noble flame,
'Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same.
Friendship: A Poem. CATH. PHILLIPS.
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
Night Thoughts. DR. E. YOUNG.