Nay, friend, farewell! for if I loved you less, It might be I should strive to hold you fast In bonds of friendship you had long o'erpast, And play the tyrant where I hoped to bless. Yet, since my love still pleads, I fain would press Once more your hand e'en while I seem to cast It coldly from me with these words at last,-- I may not keep and you...Learn More

What is indifference, do you ask of me? O well I know the meaning of the phrase. It is to find grey ash instead of blaze That warmed you once; to lose, alas! the key Which turned in friendship's wards; to sometime see The eyes that shone for you in other days Now coldly meet your own in passing gaze; To know that what has been no more shall be. It...Learn More