A friendship lit -with Truth,
A Love divine;
Bright with eternal youth,
Unchanged by time.
Not waning with the years,
Nor dimmed by sin
Watered, mayhap, with tears,
New life to win.
A love which heals the heart,
With changeless glow;
Which knows no life apart,
No place below.
Which seeks no selfish gain,
Nor asks return;
Which strongest seems in pain,
When sin-fires burn.
Such would I gladly give,
To fellow man;
Thus learn to sweetly live,
By heaven's ban.
