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Farewell false hearts whose best affections fail	A
Like shallow brooks which summer suns exhale	A
Forgetful of the man whom once ye chose	B
Cold in his cause and careless of his woes	B
I bid you both a long and last adieu	C
Cold in my turn and unconcerned like you	C
First farewell Niger whom now duly proved	D
I disregard as much as I have loved	E
Your brain well furnished and your tongue well taught	F
To press with energy your ardent thought	F
Your senatorial dignity of face	G
Sound sense intrepid spirit manly grace	G
Have raised you high as talents can ascend	H
Made you a peer but spoilt you for a friend	H
Pretend to all that parts have e'er acquired	I
Be great be feared be envied be admired	I
To fame as lasting as the earth pretend	H
But not hereafter to the name of friend	H
I sent you verse and as your lordship knows	B
Backed with a modest sheet of humble prose	B
Not to recall a promise to your mind	J
Fulfilled with ease had you been so inclined	J
But to comply with feelings and to give	K
Proof of an old affection still alive	L
Your sullen silence serves at least to tell	M
Your altered heart and so my lord farewell	M
Next busy actor on a meaner stage	N
Amusement monger of a trifling age	N
Illustrious histrionic patentee	J
Terentius once my friend farewell to thee	O
In thee some virtuous qualities combine	P
To fit thee for a nobler post than thine	P
Who born a gentleman hast stooped too low	Q
To live by buskin sock and raree show	Q
Thy schoolfellow and partner of thy plays	R
When Nichol swung the birch and twined the bays	R
And having known thee bearded and full grown	S
The weekly censor of a laughing town	T
I thought the volume I presumed to send	J
Graced with the name of a long absent friend	J
Might prove a welcome gift and touch thine heart	J
Not hard by nature in a feeling part	J
But thou it seems what cannot grandeur do	J
Though but a dream art grown disdainful too	J
And strutting in thy school of queens and kings	U
Who fret their hour and are forgotten things	U
Hast caught the cold distemper of the day	J
And like his lordship cast thy friend away	J
O Friendship cordial of the human breast	J
So little felt so fervently professed	J
Thy blossoms deck our unsuspecting years	V
The promise of delicious fruit appears	V
We hug the hopes of constancy and truth	W
Such is the folly of our dreaming youth	W
But soon alas detect the rash mistake	X
That sanguine inexperience loves to make	X
And view with tears the expected harvest lost	J
Decayed by time or withered by a frost	J
Whoever undertakes a friend's great part	J
Should be renewed in nature pure in heart	J
Prepared for martyrdom and strong to prove	Y
A thousand ways the force of genuine love	Z
He may be called to give up health and gain	A2
To exchange content for trouble ease for pain	A2
To echo sigh for sigh and groan for groan	S
And wet his cheeks with sorrows not his own	S
The heart of man for such a task too frail	A
When most relied on is most sure to fail	A
And summoned to partake its fellow's woe	Q
Starts from its office like a broken bow	B2
Votaries of business and of pleasure prove	Y
Faithless alike in friendship and in love	Z
Retired from all the circles of the gay	J
And all the crowds that bustle life away	J
To scenes where competition envy strife	C2
Beget no thunder clouds to trouble life	C2
Let me the charge of some good angel find	J
One who has known and has escaped mankind	J
Polite yet virtuous who has brought away	J
The manners not the morals of the day	J
With him perhaps with her for men have known	S
No firmer friendships than the fair have shown	S
Let me enjoy in some unthought of spot	J
All former friends forgiven and forgot	J
Down to the close of life's fast fading scene	D2
Union of hearts without a flaw between	D2
'Tis grace 'tis bounty and it calls for praise	R
If God give health that sunshine of our days	R
And if he add a blessing shared by few	J
Content of heart more praises still are due	J
But if he grant a friend that boon possessed	J
Indeed is treasure and crowns all the rest	J
And giving one whose heart is in the skies	E2
Born from above and made divinely wise	E2
He gives what bankrupt nature never can	F2
Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man	F2
Gold purer far than Ophir ever knew	J
A soul an image of himself and therefore true	J

William Cowper

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