Poem: “A Friend’s Greeting” by Edgar A. Guest

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A Friend’s Greeting

I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have
      been to me;
  I’d like to be the help that you’ve been always
      glad to be;
  I’d like to mean as much to you each minute
      of the day
  As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me
      along the way.

  I’d like to do the big things and the splendid
      things for you,
  To brush the gray from out your skies and
      leave them only blue;
  I’d like to say the kindly things that I so oft
      have heard,
  And feel that I could rouse your soul the way
      that mine you’ve stirred.

  I’d like to give you back the joy that you have
      given me,
  Yet that were wishing you a need I hope will
      never be;
  I’d like to make you feel as rich as I, who
      travel on
  Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
      lean upon.

  I’m wishing at this Christmas time that I could
      but repay
  A portion of the gladness that you’ve strewn
      along my way;
  And could I have one wish this year, this only
      would it be:
  I’d like to be the sort of friend that you have
      been to me.

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