The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-02-07
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.
TO Ne. THOMAS DAVIS AND FAMILY.


The hours If enjoyment with you that spent
In friendship and love that combine
The brightest Of joys with sweet pleasures
bIent,
Around my fond heart snail entwine.
Like dreams of enchantment that sweetly
abound
with visions that fancy paints bright,
! That fill With sweet rapture the regions
around,
And thrill the glad hearts with delight.
Like musical notes that distance has mel
lowed,
That sweeter and sweeter win grow,
Are the joys-of the past, by memory hallowed,
Whose greeting glad rapture bestow;
Are the bright visions of hours that have
vanished,
Whose cherished remembrance impart
The sweetest enjoyment to be never banshed
But cling with delight round the heart
Often shall memory, in sweet contemplation
Recall to my iaLcy the view
OF kindness dispensed without ostentaron,
Reminding of friendship and you'll
| OF friendship and love so fondly united,
Brightest links in one golden chain,
By deeds of kindness so frequently pGghted.
WhoSe sweet recollections remain.
| 'Tis the part of friend to cherish forever
The ties that sweet friendship has wove;
IT'S the part of the heart 10 forgetful be never
cannot forget your kindness unmeasured,
My thoughts it will often INVITE;
Nor the friends | love best; by meln'ry
treasured
With raptures of glowing delights
Friendship is deemed-the thought is most
stupid.
A thought that most hearts disapprove-
That, not having the wings and the weapons
Of Cupid,
IT'S entirely different from love;
But both are alike, unchanged by time or by
distance
And absence can never destroy
The bonds that unite them, that render
existence
pleasure and dream of bright JOY.
For friendship, like love, grows fOndeT and
better,
And brighter, still brighter the flame,
IL truth, It's but love All spirit ana better,
That now aud then changes its name;
For oft it takes wings and from the culver b
dart,
Which it shoots with unerring aim,
That pierces the deepest of the heart,
And lights III the bosom loves flame
Sweet friendship and love. while bow at
your shrine,
And deen you the fondest of treasures,
Oh! wreathe round my heart your blessings
lie, me drink from your fountain of
OH let nv heart feel each tender emotion
Ofioys ever fond, bright and blest,s
Let it..feel, the bright glow of an ardent
devotion,
That'l ever remain in my breast.
Purest streams of enjoyment, flow onward
forever,
Letm lips your sweet draughts never miss,
Flow on like the tide of a vast rolling river,
Fed from the deep sources of bliss;
Let.me say in the future my heart still re-
members
Every bright JOY of the past,
Still burn in my breast TIE bright glowing
embers
OF Friendship and love to the last.
Let all your endearments most fondlr nourish
The friends tn at my wishes would bless,
Let the fond hopes in their oosoms that
flourish
Brighten into full happiness;
Friends most beloved, to my bosom 80 dear,
Sooner OF later wen part,
Then will griefgiv sigh and SORROW tear,
And sadness dwell in. my heart.
May I ask. may seek for the kindly re
membrance
Of one who esteems you his frienda
Who with love will retrace your cherished
resemblance
Wherever his footsteps may tend;
Who'll never forget till existance shall perish,
Till the very laat sigh of bis breath,
Who viii sweetly remember and fondiy
cherish
z Until his life is breathed out!in death.
February LIST, 1873. ID. I. X.