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That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue
Enough, shall execrate?

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.

Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.