The New York Journal, And Weekly Register

POET's CORNER.

For the New-York Journal, &c.

MR. GREENLEAF,

By inserting the following you will very much
oblige
A Constant Reader.

On FRIENDSHIP.

Let Homer, with his most exalted verse,
The deeds of men and deities rehearse:
Let Virgil sing of heroes, and relate
The valiant fall'n by a cruel fate:
Let every ancient bard pursue their scheme,
While I essay on Friendship's nobler theme:
Friendship!—may the glorious pleasing word
To nature's farthest verge with joy be heard:
Friendship!—let the all sacred name pervade
Through every distant world that GOD
has made:
Friendship!—let the divine and joyful sound
Through the majestic vault of Heaven rebound:
May thou the purest passion of the soul,
Extend thy gentle sway from pole to pole.
O thou celestial Friendship!—may all
Be ruled by thee on this terraqueous ball;
From sea to sea, may thy mild power extend,
From rivers to the earth's remotest end.
Come blessed ARA, the redeemer’s reign,
When all things shall be ruled by peace
again;
When Friendship's peaceful rod shall bear
the sway,
And the discordant world with joy obey—
Then shall contentious broils no more be
spread,
No more shall wars in fame's annals be read;
No more shall envy, hatred, malice strive
With baneful machinations seek your life;
No more shall brothers welter in a flood
(Shudder humanity) of brother's blood;
No more shall animosities and strife prevail,
But all subside by Friendship's gentle gale.
Gohen, Nov. 30, 1788.
G. E.