Love and Friendship - An 1841 Poem
By Wm. Leggett.
- The birds, when winter shades the sky,
- Fly o'er the seas away,
- Where laughing isles in sunshine lie,
- And summer breezes play :
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- And thus the friends that flutter near
- While fortune's sun is warm,
- Are startled if a cloud appear,
- And fly before the storm.
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- But when from winter's howling plains
- Each other warbles past,
- The little snow bird still remains,
- And cherups midst the blast.
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- Love, like that bird, when friendship's throng
- With fortunes sun depart,
- Still lingers with its cheerful song,
- And nestles on the heart.
August 10, 1841. Mecklenburg Jeffersonian 1(23): 4.