Verse 1
Ah! my dear, departed friend,
Can I cease remembring Thee?
Must our sacred friendship end
With the life of misery?
From the fleshly dungeon freed,
Dead to all thou lovdst before,
Dead to me, intirely dead
Shall I clasp thy Soul no more?

Verse 2
Wherefore, when we met below,
Struck with sympathy divine,
Pleas’d its counterpart to know,
Flew my soul to mix with thine?
Blaz’d the pure, expanded flame
Such as burns in those above;
Love pervaded all my frame,
Heavenly, everlasting love.

Verse 3
Wing’d with infinite desire
Wherefore doth my soul remain,
If we all at death expire,
If we ne’er must meet again?
Say, thou questionable shade,
Once so intimately dear,
Art thou far remov’d, when dead?
None on earth is half so near.

Verse 4
Coud the greedy grave devour
One whom I this moment feel,
Lured by some mysterious power
To that world invisible?
Surely now her bliss I share
Live her life which never dies:
Yes, my old companion there
Draws me after to the skies!