ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF IDDLESLEIGH. Where love and friendship dwelt.

The book of friendship verse.

He who lends wings of hope, while secretly He spreads a traitorous snare by the wayside, Hath dulled the flame of love, and mortified Friendship where friendship burns most fervently.

In friendship love and respect unite in exact equipoise.

The friendship drink.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!

What tender yearnings, fond regret, These thoughts of early friendship bring!

He is on the top scale of my friendship ladder, on which an angel or two is still climbing, and some, alas!

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

I tell me not that I have those Who owe the ties of blood and name, Or pitying friends who love me well, And dear returns of friendship claim.

My eyes are dazed with bar-room "signs" In which, I pray, shall friendship conquer?

I now also count Bigot among them, and if anything I do displeases him, friendship demands from him and you to tell me soand

You see I never let our long-lived friendship drop, though you give it so few opportunities of breathing.

"I have observed," says he, "that the essays in the Gazetteer, though written on very important subjects, by the ablest hands which ambition can incite, friendship engage, or money procure, have never, though circulated through the kingdom with the utmost application, had any remarkable influence upon the people.

Love often in the comely mien Of friendship fancies to be seen; Soon again he shifts his dress, And wears disdain and rancour's face.

Brother and sister this time were entirely of one opinion about her: it even seemed as if Kurt himself had caught a touch of the friendship fever, as he used to call Mea's great devotion.

Friendship firm-nerv'd, resolv'd, mature, With hand more steady, strong, and sore, Can torpid Horror's veil remove, Which palsies all the force of Love!

You first betray'd your trust in loving me: And should not I my own advantage see? Serving my love, you may my friendship gain; You know the rest of your pretences vain.

Then strive to elevate mankind By operating on the mind; The empire of good will extend, A helping hand in trouble lend, Go to thy brother in distress, One kindly word may make it less, A single word, when fitly spoken, May heal a heart with sorrow broken, A smile may overcome your foe, And make his heart with friendship glow, A frown might turn his heart to steel.

" Many a wound of friendship heals, but the wounder and the wounded are never the same to each other afterward.

Just, good, and wise, contending neighbours come, From your award to wait their final doom; And, foes before, return in friendship home.

" "But do you always take him out with you, when you go a friendship-hunting?"

It is not short of miraculous how, with cultivation, one's capacity for friendship increases.

But when th'unlucky knot we tie, Care, av'rice, fear, and jealousy Make friendship languish till it die.

They were a singular contrast, Mortimer and Scott, and it was in their differences that the secret of their close friendship lay.