A generous friendship on cold medium knows, Warms with one love—with one resentment shows, One should our interests, one our passions be, My friend must slight the one that injures me.

Full Text
A generous friendship on cold medium knows, Warms with one love—with one resentment shows, One should our interests, one our passions be, My friend must slight the one that injures me.
Listed on Page Number
266
Sampler Worked By
Mary Lithgow
Date of Sampler
1807
Place Sampler Made
Augusta, Maine
Sampler Listed on Page
189
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Pope, Alexander. The Iliad of Homer, England, 1715-1720. Book ix, line 725.
Notes
In the first line, the original words include “no” rather than “on” and in the second line it appears as “Burns with one love—with one resentment glows”. From 1715 to 1720, Pope wrote "The Iliad of Homer" (a poetic interpretation of the original Homeric poem) Link to full text: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Iliad_of_Homer_(Alexander_Pope)#Book_IX