Poems Of Friendship (2)

Though Love be deeper,
Friendship is more wide;
Like some high plateau
stretching limitless,
It may not feel the ultimate
caress
Of sun-kissed peaks, remote and glorified,
But here the light, with gentler winds allied,
The broad horizon sweeps, till loneliness,
The cruel tyrant of the soul's distress,
In such sweet company may not
abide.
Friendship has vision, though
dear Love be blind,
And swift and full communion in the fair
Free flight of high and
sudden ecstasy,
The broad excursions where,
mind knit to mind,
And Heart renewed, can all
things dare,
Lit by the fire of perfect
sympathy.

-"Friendship"
by Corinne Rooselvelt Robinson
20th-century American poet