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116 FRIENDSHIP. I 
IVY. 
Hedera. 
Language ERIENDSHIP. 
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul ! 
Sweetener of life, and solder of society ! 
I owe thee much. Thou hast deserved of me 
Far, far beyond what I can ever pay. 
Oft have I proved the labors of thy love, 
And the warm eflforts of a gentle heart. 
Anxious to please. 
Blais. 
What though on Love's altar the flame that is glowing 
Is brighter ? yet Friendship's is steadier far ! 
One wavers and turns with each breeze that is blowing, 
And is but a meteor the other 's a star ! 
In youth Love's light 
Burns warm and bright. 
But dies ere the winter of age be past ; 
While Friendship's flame 
Burns ever the same, 
And glows but the brighter, the nearer its last ! 
O, let mi/ friendship in the wreath. 
Though but a bud among the flowers, 
Its sweetest fragrance round thee breathe 
'Twill serve to soothe thy weary hours. 
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