| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| We Have Been Friends Together |
| | | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–77) |
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| WE have been friends together, | |
| In sunshine and in shade; | |
| Since first beneath the chestnut-trees | |
| In infancy we played. | |
| But coldness dwells within thy heart, | 5 |
| A cloud is on thy brow; | |
| We have been friends together— | |
| Shall a light word part us now? | |
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| We have been gay together; | |
| We have laugh’d at little jests; | 10 |
| For the fount of hope was gushing | |
| Warm and joyous in our breasts. | |
| But laughter now hath fled thy lip, | |
| And sullen glooms thy brow; | |
| We have been gay together— | 15 |
| Shall a light word part us now? | |
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| We have been sad together, | |
| We have wept, with bitter tears, | |
| O’er the grass-grown graves, where slumber’d | |
| The hopes of early years. | 20 |
| The voices which are silent there | |
| Would bid thee clear thy brow; | |
| We have been sad together— | |
| Oh! what shall part us now? | |
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