Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="FRIEND" id="FRIEND"></SPAN>Friend</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">L</span>AST night when I was watching shadows lengthen<br/></span> <span class="ih">From twilight into deeper, darker lines,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The lazy river caught my little boat dear,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And swept it in among the clinging vines.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And somehow in the mirror of the current<br/></span> <span class="i2">I saw your kindly face look back at me.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then I reached my eager hands toward you<br/></span> <span class="i2">As one would do to friends across the sea.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Friend O! mine, don’t think that I’ve forgotten,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Tho’ parted now by many a weary mile.<br/></span> <span class="i0">In every little pool I see reflected,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Your eyes forever tender with a smile<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And someday when GOD calls me from my dreaming<br/></span> <span class="i2">And draws me from life’s loneliness apart,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I’ll carry all these things that I remember&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">About you, up to heaven in my heart.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_10" id="page_10">{10}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />