FIFTY more! my kind friend–and apologize too!
Yet with form–let me ask, what has friendship to do?
And such friendship as yours–flowing warm from a heart
Unguided by int’rest–unaided by art,
But rising or springing from sources divine,
For such sweet benevolence surely is thine!
And such, my kind friend, is a motive that’s blest,
Which, phoenix-like , rose from its mansion thy breast.
“No phoenix,”–methinks I hear you exclaim;
Yet in this instance do not the epithet blame;
For sincerity guideth each thought of my mind,
And so, my dear friend, in time you will find.
But phoenix you are; for no friend have I found,
(Though with some–twenty years have circled their round,)
Who have tried like yourself to promote this design;
Then surely the praise , and the glory is thine!
Yet do not suppose that I mean to declare
No being has made my int’rest their care;
I only avow, that you have done more
Than the rest of my friends,–as I’ve told you before;
And as gratitude filleth each space of my heart,
You claim, my dear friend, a Benjamin’s part.
(Mary Hopkins Pilkington)
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