Edgar Albert Guest

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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