FRIENDSHIP: AN ODE.

Printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1745. FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

While love, unknown among the blest,
Parent of thousand wild desires,
The savage and the human breast
Torment alike with raging fires.

With bright, butoft destructive gleam,
Alike o'er all his lightnings fly,
Thy lambent glories only beam
Around the favourites of the sky.

Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys,
On fools and villians ne'er descend;
In vain for thee the tyrant sighs,
And hugs a flatterer for a friend.

Directress of the brave and just,

O guide us through life's darksome way:
And let the tortures of mistrust
On selfish bosoms only, prey.

Nor shall thine ardors cease to glow, When souls to peaceful climes remove: What raised our virtue here below, Shall aid our happiness above.

FINIS.

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