TIME PASSES FRIENDSHIP STAYS 



When, anon, some purple ray 

 Gives a sample of the day, 

 When, anon, the lark, on wing, 

 Strives to soar, and strains to sing? 



Have ye seen the ethereal blue 

 Gently shedding silvery dew, 

 Spangling o'er the silent green, 

 While the nightingale, unseen, 

 To the moon and stars, full bright, 

 Lonesome chants the hymn of night? 



Have ye seen the broider'd May 

 All her scented bloom display, 

 Breezes opening, every hour, 

 This, and that, expecting flower, 

 While the mingling birds prolong, 

 From each bush the vernal song? 



Have ye seen the damask rose 

 Her unsully'd blush disclose, 

 Or the lily's dewy bell, 

 In her glossy white, excell, 

 Or a garden vary'd o'er 

 With a thousand glories more? 



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