 Where are my friends? I am alone, No playmate shares my beaker; Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the Speaker, And some compose a tragedy, And some compose a rondo; And some draw sword for liberty, And some draw pleas for John Doe.  The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 222by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 1886 - 840 pages
...occasion recorded in this story, and of most of those then present I may say regretfully with Praed, — Where are my friends ? I am alone : No playmate shares...churchyard stone, And some — before the Speaker. Since then I have mixed with all sorts and conditions of men, but I have never again been present at... | |
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