Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FRIENDSHIP, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE


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First Line: When we were idlers with the loitering rills
Last Line: The hills sleep on in their eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Variant Title(s): To A Friend
Subject(s): Friendship


WHEN we were idlers with the loitering rills,
The need of human love we little noted:
Our love was nature; and the peace that floated
On the white mist, and dwelt upon the hills,
To sweet accord subdued our wayward wills:
One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted,
That, wisely doting, ask'd not why it doted,
And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills.
But now I find how dear thou wert to me;
That man is more than half of nature's treasure,
Of that fair beauty which no eye can see,
Of that sweet music which no ear can measure;
And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure,
The hills sleep on in their eternity.






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