Poems (Campbell)/Friendship and Love
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
What is Friendship—what is Love?— Say, did they ever deign to smileOn man, or quit the realms above To sweeten all his care and toil?
Friendship is a lovely flow'r, That gaily blooms to summer-skies;But, ah! in sorrow's trying hour The sickly blossom droops and dies.
Love is the shadow of a shade, A nothing of the brain—a dream—A tale by fabling poets made, False as the false moon's changeful beam!