<h2><SPAN name="Friends" id="Friends"></SPAN>Friends</h2>
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<span class="i0">Years ago,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Simply ages;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I don't know<br/></span>
<span class="i0">How the deuce they go:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Like turning pages!<br/></span></div>
<div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">We're still friends at any rate;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Nothing can invalidate<br/></span>
<span class="i0">The fun we had,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Good or bad,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Always together,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Not caring whether<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Earthquake or thunder,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Over or under;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Joy in each heart;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Singing like thrushes<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Young in bushes:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Now—we're apart.<br/></span></div>
<div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">I've never been so happy since then:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">They talk of the love of women and men,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">It's not half so true as that of friends;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Not passionate, not selfish,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Never ends ...<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Not our fault to be forced away,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Destiny came:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">A wedge:<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum">[42]</span><span class="i0">We could not turn its edge;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And so it fell upon that bitter day.<br/></span></div>
<div class="stanza">
<span class="i0">We might have had such times!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But—No! No!<br/></span>
<span class="i0">It wouldn't go;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">And after that 'twas never the same;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">I can't encompass it by rhymes,<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Halting and tame;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">There it lies—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Not to be altered by tears or sighs:<br/></span>
<span class="i0">We meet, stealing;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Eyes on the door;<br/></span>
<span class="i0">With banished feeling—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But—No more!<br/></span>
<span class="pagenum">[43]</span></div>
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