Original - Duke Divinity School

Assert our Kindred to the Skies,
And grasp Immortal Pleasure.
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The Good and Brave the Vertues own
To Generous Converse due;
And they’re the Good and Brave alone
That Can and Dare be True.
They’re Such who feel the Steady Rays
Of Friendship’s purest Flame;
And, Clear or Cloudy be their Days,
For ever Love the same.
Ch[orus]: So Friend with Friend we’ll nobly close,
While All around us wonder
There should be found in Nature Those,
Whom Fortune cannot sunder.
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What tho’ the Many wholly bend
To Things beneath our State,
Some poorly to be Rich contend,
And others meanly Great?
There liv’d a few thro’ every Space,
Since first our Kind began,
Who still maintain’d, with better Grace,
The Dignity of Man.
Ch[orus]: For this, as met our Sires, meet We,
With Brother join we Brother:
For Souls from Pride and Av’rice free,
Were form’d for one another.
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