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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, dear as memory's joys! Of life that's past
Last Line: Disturb the mutual trust our being shares.
Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Memory
First Line: Friend, dear as memory's joys! Of life that's past
Last Line: Disturb the mutual trust our being shares.
Subject(s): Friendship; Life; Memory
FRIEND, dear as Memory's joys! of life that 's past
A part, and part of better life to come,
If life to come there be, in some dear home
Beyond the rigid clouds that overcast
Our sundered lives -- all that is mine thou hast; --
All thoughts, all sympathies; -- though far I roam
From you -- by mountains, streams, or ocean's foam
Divided long -- yet ever, first and last,
Our love knows no division. In my soul
And yours, we twin-born spirits of one blood,
Still, as of old, are one. No sea can roll
Between its league-long melancholy flood,
No separate interests, loves, or pressing cares
Disturb the mutual trust our being shares.
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