WE have been friends together, <br /> In sunshine and in shade; <br />Since first beneath the chestnut-trees <br /> In infancy we played. <br />But coldness dwells within thy heart, <br /> A cloud is on thy brow; <br />We have been friends together— <br /> Shall a light word part us now? <br /> <br />We have been gay together; <br /> We have laugh’d at little jests; <br />For the fount of hope was gushing <br /> Warm and joyous in our breasts. <br />But laughter now hath fled thy lip, <br /> And sullen glooms thy brow; <br />We have been gay together— <br /> Shall a light word part us now? <br /> <br />We have been sad together, <br /> We have wept, with bitter tears, <br />O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d <br /> The hopes of early years. <br />The voices which are silent there <br /> Would bid thee clear thy brow; <br />We have been sad together— <br /> Oh! what shall part us now?<br /><br />Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-have-been-friends-together/
