Competitors

Competitors written by William Henry Davies

From "Love Poems" (1935)

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I had a friend to smoke and drink,
We dined at clubs and saw the Play;
Till Love came, like the smallest wind,
And looked him quietly away.

So Friendship goes, and Love remains,
And who can question which is best —
A Friendship reared on the bottle, or
A Love that's reared at the breast?

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