Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Friendship | | A Wayfaring Song | | Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) |
| | From The Outlook
O WHO will walk a mile with me | |
| Along life’s merry way? | |
| A comrade blithe and full of glee, | |
| Who dares to laugh out loud and free, | |
| And let his frolic fancy play, | 5 |
| Like a happy child, through the flowers gay | |
| That fill the field and fringe the way | |
| Where he walks a mile with me. | |
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| And who will walk a mile with me | |
| Along life’s weary way? | 10 |
| A friend whose heart has eyes to see | |
| The stars shine out o’er the darkening lea, | |
| And the quiet rest at the end o’ the day,— | |
| A friend who knows, and dares to say, | |
| The brave, sweet words that cheer the way | 15 |
| Where he walks a mile with me. | |
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| With such a comrade, such a friend, | |
| I fain would walk till journeys end, | |
| Through summer sunshine, winter rain, | |
| And then?—Farewell, we shall meet again! | 20 | | | |
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