Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="MY_FRIEND" id="MY_FRIEND"></SPAN>My Friend</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">I</span> HAVE a friend, if you should ask<br/></span> <span class="i2">Why ’tis I love her well,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Indeed, ’twould be a weighty task<br/></span> <span class="i2">These reasons all to tell.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">First, she is good enough to see&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">A pretty face and kind,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That somehow fairer is to me<br/></span> <span class="i2">Than others I can find.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_225" id="page_225"></SPAN>{225}</span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">She has two lips with laughter filled,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That hold not scorn nor sneer,<br/></span> <span class="i0">She is a little bit self-willed&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Gangs her ain gait, I fear.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">She has two strong and supple hands,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Two bright and tender eyes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">She has a heart that understands,<br/></span> <span class="i2">She has a judgment wise.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Her voice&mdash;at least to me&mdash;is fine,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I like to lie and rest,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And hear her reading, line by line,<br/></span> <span class="i2">The poems I love best.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">No jealousy, no trace of spite<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is in her nature strong,<br/></span> <span class="i0">She is so loyal to the right,<br/></span> <span class="i2">So gentle with the wrong.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_226" id="page_226"></SPAN>{226}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />