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Few years have pass'd since thou and I	A
Were firmest friends at least in name	B
And childhood's gay sincerity	C
Preserved our feelings long the same	B
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But now like me too well thou know'st	D
What trifles oft the heart recall	E
And those who once have loved the most	F
Too soon forget they loved at all	E
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And such the change the heart displays	G
So frail is early friendship's reign	H
A month's brief lapse perhaps a day's	G
Will view thy mind estranged again	I
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If so it never shall be mine	J
To mourn the loss of such a heart	K
The fault was Nature's fault not thine	J
Which made thee fickle as thou art	K
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As rolls the ocean's changing tide	L
So human feelings ebb and flow	M
And who would in a breast confide	L
Where stormy passions ever glow	M
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It boots not that together bred	N
Our childish days were days of joy	O
My spring of life has quickly fled	N
Thou too hast ceased to be a boy	O
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And when we bid adieu to youth	P
Slaves to the specious world's control	Q
We sigh a long farewell to truth	P
That world corrupts the noblest soul	Q
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Ah joyous season when the mind	R
Dares all things boldly but to lie	A
When thought ere spoke is unconfined	R
And sparkles in the placid eye	A
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Not so in Man's maturer years	S
When Man himself is but a tool	T
When interest sways our hopes and fears	S
And all must love and hate by rule	T
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With fools in kindred vice the same	B
We learn at length our faults to blend	U
And those and those alone may claim	B
The prostituted name of friend	U
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Such is the common lot of man	V
Can we then 'scape from folly free	C
Can we reverse the general plan	V
Nor be what all in turn must be	C
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No for myself so dark my fate	W
Through every turn of life hath been	X
Man and the world so much I hate	W
I care not when I quit the scene	Y
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But thou with spirit frail and light	Z
Wilt shine awhile and pass away	A2
As glow worms sparkle through the night	Z
But dare not stand the test of day	A2
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Alas whenever folly calls	B2
Where parasites and princes meet	D
For cherish'd first in royal halls	B2
The welcome vices kindly greet	D
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Ev'n now thou'rt nightly seen to add	C2
One insect to the fluttering crowd	D2
And still thy trifling heart is glad	C2
To join the vain and court the proud	D2
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There dost thou glide from fair to fair	E2
Still simpering on with eager haste	F2
As flies along the gay parterre	E2
That taint the flowers they scarcely taste	F2
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But say what nymph will prize the flame	B
Which seems as marshy vapours move	G2
To flit along from dame to dame	B
An ignis fatuus gleam of love	H2
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What friend for thee howe'er inclined	R
Will deign to own a kindred care	E2
Who will debase his manly mind	R
For friendship every fool may share	E2
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In time forbear amidst the throng	I2
No more so base a thing be seen	Y
No more so idly pass along	I2
Be something anything but mean	Y

George Gordon Byron

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