Friends Unborn

Friends Unborn written by William Henry Davies

From "Ambition", 1929

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With this one friend - I ask no more -
To love me till I die,
I sing my songs that, after death,
My friends may multiply.
To make this world, when I am gone,
Think all the more of me -
Each time a rainbow's in the sky,
Or bird is on a tree.
That God may say, when I am judged -
'This sinner did his duty:
Who made men worship Me the more,
By his great love of beauty.'

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