A TRIPLE health to Friendship, Science, Art, From heads and hands that own a common heart! Each in its turn the others' willing slave, Each in its season strong to heal and save. Friendship's blind service, in the hour of need, Wipes the pale face, and lets the victim bleed. Science must stop to reason and explain; ART claps his finger on the streaming vein. But Art's brief memory fails the hand at last; Then SCIENCE lifts the flambeau of the past. When both their equal impotence deplore, When Learning sighs, and Skill can do no more, The tear of FRIENDSHIP pours its heavenly balm, And soothes the pang no anodyne may calm! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE by SIDNEY LANIER IN A BYE-CANAL by HERMAN MELVILLE THE GIFT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL PURSUIT AND POSSESSION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH HORATIAN ECHO by MATTHEW ARNOLD EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 26. PLATONIC LOVE by PHILIP AYRES EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 27. THE POWER OF ELOQUENCE IN LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |