Frances Anne Kemble - Impromptu (III)

ON GIVING A FRIEND A CROSS.


We should each other's crosses help to bear,
Yet I, dear friend, lay this upon your breast:
Would Heaven, indulgent, hear my heartfelt prayer,
No heavier one should ever on it rest.

Frances Anne Kemble

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