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A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Alas! They had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be worth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain.
And thus is chanced, as I divine,
With Roland and Sir Leoline.
Each spake words of high disdain
And insult to his heart's best brother:
They parted - ne'er to meet again!
But never either found another
To free the hollow heart from painting -
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
Like cliffs which had been rent asunder;
A dreary see now flows between; -
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been.

meaning of the poem with summary please

Answer 1

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; ...

Answer 2

There were two people in this poem. They used to be best friends but then they got in a fight. They fought and never resolved their issue. They let their problem between them break apart and destroy their friendship. After this they never saw each other again.