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FRIENDSHIP. 
French work has repelled this calumny. 
The ivy appears to him to he the emblem of 
eternal friendship; he says, “ Nothing is 
able to separate the ivy from the tree around 
which it has once entwined itself; it clothes 
the object with its own foliage in that incle¬ 
ment season when its black boughs are co¬ 
vered with hoar frost; the companion of its 
destinies, it falls when the tree is cut down. 
Death itself does not detach it, but it con¬ 
tinues to decorate with its constant verdure 
the dry trunk it had chosen as its support.” 
Clare says, 
The ivy shuns the city wall, 
Where busy clamorous crowds intrude, 
And climbs the desolated hall 
In silent solitude; 
The time-worn arch, the fallen dome, 
Are roots for its eternal home. 
Carrington makes it the symbol of deso¬ 
lation. Alluding to the ruins of Trematon, 
on the banks of Tamar, he sings, 
It is the triumph of resistless time, 
Man and his labours must submit to him ! 
He throws the column from its solid base ! 
He saps e’en now thy withering remains, 
Majestic Trematon! and till the hour, 
When he, exulting, on the ground shall’dash 
Thy walls, now trembling to the western gale, 
