Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="TO_FRIENDS" id="TO_FRIENDS"></SPAN>To Friends</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">L</span>AST night, when I was wearied to my soul,<br/></span> <span class="ih">I was slipping out to dreamland very fast.<br/></span> <span class="i0">When I tho’t about you, and the things you did,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The help you gave, for which I did not ask.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Your unselfishness and kind deeds true,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Kept coming up before me like a scroll.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I could not count the many things you did,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For me, when I was sick, in body and in soul.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My undeserving self grew very, very tired.<br/></span> <span class="i2">With all the counting of them, and I slept.<br/></span> <span class="i0">But, ’twas just to dream again of all these things,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And in my restless sleep, I wept, and wept, and wept.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_57" id="page_57">{57}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />