And strong-willed Mars at frozen north
Beside Diana steals.

BROOKLYN, August, 1850.

[Footnote 2: "Lachrymis oculos effusa nitentes."]

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FRIENDSHIP.

How oft the burdened heart would sink
In fathomless despair
But for an angel on the brink--
In mercy standing there:
An angel bright with heavenly light--
And born of loftiest skies,
Who shows her face to mortal race,
In Friendship's holy guise.

Upon the brink of dark despair,
With smiling face she stands;
And to the victim shrinking there,
Outspreads her eager hands:
In accents low that sweetly flow
To his awakening ear,
She woos him back--his deathward track.
Toward Hope's effulgent sphere.

Sweet Friendship! let me daily give