<p><SPAN name="link66" id="link66"></SPAN>And a youth said, Speak to us of
<b><i>Friendship</i></b>.</p>
<p>And he answered, saying:</p>
<p>Your friend is your needs answered.</p>
<p>He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.</p>
<p>And he is your board and your fireside.</p>
<p>For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.</p>
<p>When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own
mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”</p>
<p>And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;</p>
<p>For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations
are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.</p>
<p>When you part from your friend, you grieve not;</p>
<p>For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the
mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. <SPAN name="link67"></SPAN>And let
there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.</p>
<p>For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but
a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.</p>
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And let your best be for your friend.</p>
<p>If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.</p>
<p>For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?</p>
<p>Seek him always with hours to live.</p>
<p>For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.</p>
<p>And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of
pleasures.</p>
<p>For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.</p>
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