Love and Friendship Opposite

Her attachment may differ from yours in degree,

       &nbspProvided they are both of one kind;

But Friendship, how tender so ever it be,

       &nbspGives no accord to Love, however refined.

Love, that meets not with Love, its true nature revealing,

       &nbspGrows ashamed of itself, and demurs:

If you cannot lift hers up to your state of feeling,

       &nbspYou must lower down your state to hers.