O friend estranged, whose love, now cold,
Once warmed my heart with bliss untold,
How near we were, now sundered far!
What fate perverse did forge the bar
That holds apart the friends of old?
Do you forget how o’er us rolled
The tides of feeling uncontrolled,
Before your love knew wound or scar,
O friend estranged?
When first your hand-clasp loosed its hold,
And dark mistrust, grown over-bold,
Crept in, your faith to blur and mar,
Did not your spirit feel the jar
Preluding friendship’s death-knell knolled,
O friend estranged?
(Oscar Fay Adams)
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