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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 lov'd 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 estrang'd 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 ceas'd to be a boy	O
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And when we bid adieu to youth	P
Slaves to the specious World's controul	M
We sigh a long farewell to truth	P
That World corrupts the noblest soul	M
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Ah joyous season when the mind	Q
Dares all things boldly but to lie	M
When Thought ere spoke is unconfin'd	Q
And sparkles in the placid eye	M
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Not so in Man's maturer years	R
When Man himself is but a tool	M
When Interest sways our hopes and fears	R
And all must love and hate by rule	M
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With fools in kindred vice the same	B
We learn at length our faults to blend	S
And those and those alone may claim	B
The prostituted name of friend	S
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Such is the common lot of man	T
Can we then 'scape from folly free	C
Can we reverse the general plan	T
Nor be what all in turn must be	C
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No for myself so dark my fate	U
Through every turn of life hath been	V
Man and the World so much I hate	U
I care not when I quit the scene	W
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But thou with spirit frail and light	X
Wilt shine awhile and pass away	Y
As glow worms sparkle through the night	X
But dare not stand the test of day	Y
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Alas whenever Folly calls	Z
Where parasites and princes meet	D
For cherish'd first in royal halls	Z
The welcome vices kindly greet	D
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Ev'n now thou'rt nightly seen to add	A2
One insect to the fluttering crowd	B2
And still thy trifling heart is glad	A2
To join the vain and court the proud	B2
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There dost thou glide from fair to fair	C2
Still simpering on with eager haste	D2
As flies along the gay parterre	C2
That taint the flowers they scarcely taste	D2
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But say what nymph will prize the flame	B
Which seems as marshy vapours move	E2
To flit along from dame to dame	B
An ignis fatuus gleam of love	F2
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What friend for thee howe'er inclin'd	Q
Will deign to own a kindred care	C2
Who will debase his manly mind	Q
For friendship every fool may share	C2
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In time forbear amidst the throng	G2
No more so base a thing be seen	W
No more so idly pass along	G2
Be something any thing but mean	W

George Gordon Lord Byron

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