The Poetry Corner

Loyalty

By Madison Julius Cawein

To Friendship drink, and then to Love, And last to Loyalty! The first of these were not enough Without the last, through whom we prove That Love is Love, and right enough What Friendship's self may be. So here 's to Loyalty! A sword he wears, but never a mask, So all the world may see. Let Friendship set him any task, Or Love no question doth he ask, But draws his sword and does his task, And never takes a fee. So here's to loyalty!