Broken Friendship by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b"Coleridge read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Broken Friendship\\nby Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 \\u2013 1834)\\n\\nAlas! they had been friends in youth,\\nBut whispering tongues can poison truth!\\nAnd constancy lives in realms above!\\nAnd life is thorny, and Youth is vain!\\nAnd to be wroth with one we love,\\nDoth work like madness in the brain!\\nThey parted -- ne'er to meet again!\\nBut never either found another\\nTo free the hollow heart from paining!\\nThey stood aloof, the scars remaining;\\nLike cliffs which had been rent asunder!\\nA dreary sea now flows between;\\nBut neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,\\nShall wholly do away, I ween,\\nThe marks of that which once had been."