FRIENDSHIP.
How gracious and how beautiful ' • ' Is a friendship pure and true ; , A life-long love, whose phases Are like morning— ever new. Not transient as a meteor. But a steady, tranquil light ; One we know that ever shinetli, Though distance cloud our view. A friend who never falters, . Who is firm in hope and trust ; With a faith which pierces through the mist And shroud of mortal dust. Whose ministering presence Would with patient steps attend Our laborious earthly journey, Unfailing to the end. No record kept of weakness, Nor of ambition vain ; Our virtues treasured jealously, Guarded from flaw or Btain ; In whose delightful fellowship We no suspicion know ; Whose heart rings true to each appeal Ot ecstacy or woe. Though riot a common blessing In our terrestrial lot, I have it— hold it priceless, Pitying him who knows it not. . y), Dunedln, August 9.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 29
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146FRIENDSHIP. Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 17 August 1888, Page 29
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