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Lettered inside image: "37 | Is virtue kindling at a rival fire, | And, emulously rapid in her race. | O the soft enmity! endearing strife! | This carries friendship to her noon-tide point, | And gives the rivet of eternity. | From friendship, which outlives my former themes, | Glorious survivor of old time, and death! | From friendship thus, that flower of heavenly seed, | The wise extract earth's most hyblean bliss, | Superior wisdom crown'd with smiling joy. | But for whom blossoms this elysian flower? | Abroad they find, who cherish it at home. | LORENZO! pardon what my love extorts, | An honest love, and not afraid to frown. | Though choice of follies fasten on the great, | None clings more obstinate than fancy fond | That sacred friendship is their easy prey; | Caught by the wafture of a golden lure, | Or fascination of a high-born smile. | Their smiles, the great, and the coquet throw out | For other hearts, tenacious of their own; | And we no less of ours, when such the bait. | Ye fortune's cofferers! ye powers of wealth! | You do your rent-rolls most felonious wrong, | By taking our attachment to yourselves: | Can gold gain friendship? impudence of hope! | As well mere man an angel might beget: | *Love, and love only, is the loan for love. | LORENZO! pride repress; nor hope to find | A friend, but what has found a friend in thee."; lower right: "inv. & sc | WB"