Society

Hail social converse! source of purest pleasures, Sweet and reviving as the rosy morning, When first the day-star gilds the face of nature With his blest radiance.

Hail sacred friendship! fraught with choicest blessings, Where souls congenial taste thy sacred union, Bound by the cement of resin'd affection, Founded on virtue.

Truth, heavenly goddess, baffles our researches, While painful languor springs from ceaseless study, Welcome sweet converse, kind refreshing cordial, Ever delightful.

Thy cheering influence fooths the ruffled passion, While pale misfortune sinks the weary spirits; So the clouds vanish, where the radiant sunbeams Shine in full splendor.

If thus exalted thy enliv'ning pleasure In these dull regions, how sublimely glorious, Mid the bright mansions, where immortal friendship Blooms in perfection.