“O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.”

— William Cowper

Source: Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk (1782), Line 37.
Context: My friends, do they now and then send
A wish or a thought after me?
O tell me I yet have a friend,
Though a friend I am never to see.

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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800

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