A Broken Friendship Poem by Anonymous British

In friendship unbroken
The happy months passed,
With never a token
That 'twas not to last.

For as time should lengthen
From months into years
The trust should but strengthen
Secure from all fears.

Alas for such dreaming!
It took but a day
This friendship fair seeming,
To bring to decay.

It sudden destroyal
'Twas wrought by a breath!
Can no two be loyal
In friendship till death?

Ah well! it is over - -
Begun but to end;
But no gain will cover
The loss of a friend.