A blessed thing is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust uttlerly:
who knows the best an the worst of us, an who loves us spite of all our faults,
who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flattens us to our face,
an laughs at us behind our back:
who will us counsel an encourage us in the day of the difficuly an sorrow,
when the world leaves us to fight our own battles as we can!
