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IF THOU HAST LOST A FRIEND by CHARLES SWAIN

Last Line: LET PRIDE NO MORE BE HEARD
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP; PRIDE; LOSS; FORGIVENESS;
If thou hast lost a friend,
By hard or hasty word,
Go, - call him to thy heart again;
Let Pride no more be heard.
Remind him of those happy days,
Too beautiful to last;
Ask, if a word should cancel years
Of truth and friendship past?
Oh! if you thoou hast lost a friend,
Go, - call him to thy heart again;
Let Pride no more be heard.

Oh! tell him from thy thought
The light of joy hath fled;
That, in thy sad and silent breast,
Thy lonely heart seems dead;
That mount and vale - each path ye trod,
By morn or evening dim,
Reproach you with their frowning gaze,
And ask your soul for him.

If thou hast lost a friend,
By hard or hasty word,
Go, - call him to thy heart again;
Let Pride no more be heard.



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