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BLACKBERRIES, SELS. by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

First Line: DEAR FRIEND, SO MUCH ADMIRED, SO OFT DESIRED
Last Line: HIS FAME WAS RESCUED BY A SINGLE PLANK
Subject(s): DEBATES; DESIRE; FAME; FRIENDSHIP; REVOLUTIONS;
DEAR Friend, so much admired, so oft desired,
'Tis true that now I wish to be away.
You are not tiresome, no! but I am tired.
Allow to servant brain and nerves full play
In their electric function, yea and nay;
Faith and affection do not shift their ground,
Howe'er the vital currents ebb and flow;
To feel most free because most firmly bound Is
Friendship's privilege: so now I go
To rest awhile the mystic nerves and brain,
To walk apart, -and long for you again.
I'LL make it part of my life's plan
To quarrel with no honest man;
And for no earthly bribe pretend
To take the other sort for friend.




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