"Tomorrow" I say, "I'll call on Jim
Just to show him that I think of him,"
But tomorrow comes, and tomorrow goes,
And the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner--yet miles away
"Here's a telegram, sir" Jim died today.
And that's what we get and deserve in the end,
Around the corner, a vanished friend.
--_C. Hanson Towne_.
_See also_ Borrowers.
FRIENDSHIP
"Friendship," said Uncle Eben, "don't mean no mo' to some folk dan a
license to borrow money."
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.--_Goldsmith_.
So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no man is useless while he has a friend.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it
respect.--_Cicero_.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go,
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,--
There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
--_Ella Wheeler Wilcox_.
FUTURE
Youth measures the future with the straight, new ruler of the present;
Old Age, by the frayed and patched plumb-line of the past.
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