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FRIENDS UNBORN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: WITH THIS ONE FRIEND - I ASK NO MORE
Last Line: BY HIS GREAT LOVE OF BEAUTY.'
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP;
With this one friend – I ask no more –
To love me till I die,
I sing my songs that, after death,
My friends may multiply.
To make this world, when I am gone,
Think all the more of me –
Each time a rainbow's in the sky,
Or bird is on a tree.
That God may say, when I am judged –
'This sinner did his duty:
Who made men worship Me the more,
By his great love of beauty.'



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