My FRIEND.
What is a Friend? Can dictionary toll Its meaning clear? Go, seek, then come and say You know it now — 'tis briefly put. Away, Define it not ! Disport the snow-drop's bell ? Explain its cause, its wherefore — how befell The pure, pale thing to meet the gold sun-ray, And whitely cast its lustre on thy way Within the bosky depths of yonder dell? My flower and friend I greet as sent from God ; I trace in both the lineaments divine, As summit-wards I climb the path, well-trod, That leadeth up, past tow'ring mountain pine — Past all these earthly helpers, till His nod — His "Well done! " soundeth through tho even-shine.
Polce A. Capot,
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New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 July 1900, Page 63
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113My FRIEND. New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 July 1900, Page 63
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