For works with similar titles, see Friendship.
FRIENDSHIP.
O friendship! thou, the balm of life,
Thou soother of our woes,
Without thy sweet solacing power,
Where should we find repose?
Thou art the star that lights our way
Across life's stormy sea,
Without thy beams, without thy light,
How dark this world would be.
Thou soother of our woes,
Without thy sweet solacing power,
Where should we find repose?
Thou art the star that lights our way
Across life's stormy sea,
Without thy beams, without thy light,
How dark this world would be.
Still cheer me with thy holy trust,
Still let me find in thee,
A shelter from the storms that rage
Upon life's surging sea;
And when my fragile bark at last
Across its waves are driven,
O! may the friendship, lost on earth,
Be found again in Heaven.
Still let me find in thee,
A shelter from the storms that rage
Upon life's surging sea;
And when my fragile bark at last
Across its waves are driven,
O! may the friendship, lost on earth,
Be found again in Heaven.