Poems (Edwards)/Friendship
For works with similar titles, see Friendship.
FRIENDSHIP.
O friendship! thou, the balm of life, Thou soother of our woes,Without thy sweet solacing power, Where should we find repose?Thou art the star that lights our way Across life's stormy sea,Without thy beams, without thy light, How dark this world would be.
Still cheer me with thy holy trust, Still let me find in thee,A shelter from the storms that rage Upon life's surging sea;And when my fragile bark at last Across its waves are driven,O! may the friendship, lost on earth, Be found again in Heaven.