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Friendship

Friendship! peculiar boon of Heaven,

The noble mind's delight and pride,

To men and angels only given,

To all the lower world denied.

While love, unknown among the bless'd,

Parent of thousand wild desires,

The savage and the human

Torments alike with raging fires.

With bright, but oft destructive gleam,

Alike o'er all his lightnings fly,

Thy lambent glories only

Around the favourites of the sky.

Thy gentle flows of guiltless

On fools and villains ne'er descend;

In vain for thee the tyrant sighs,

And hugs a flatterer for a friend.

Directness of the brave and just,

Oh guide us through life's darksome way!

And let the tortures of

On selfish bosoms only prey.

Nor shall thine ardours cease to glow,

When souls to peaceful climes remove.

What raised our virtue here

Shall aid our happiness above.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting …

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