LOVE, AS FRIENDSHIP

Qf athletic strengtli and beauty, yet g«ntle in hîs xnsinn6rs,

And "with a face like a star — so stedtet, clear and true that he, the sufferer, felt renewed by merely looking on it.

But what was even more strange, the newcomer tuming spoke friendly to him, and soon seemed to understand.

And from that time forward came and companioned and nursed him, and stayed whole nights and days with him, and loved him.

And ont of his despair there grew sometiiing so glorious that he f orgets it not, night nor day ;

Great waves of health and strength corne to him — as to a man who after the long Arctic night bathes in the warmth and light of the re-arisen sun ;

Even the wretched tailor's den is transformed ; but soon leaving that he accepts by préférence the poorest work in the open under heaven,

And bceathes agaln, and tastes the sweet air afresh ;

And watches a new sun rise in the moming, and a new transparency among the stars at night;

And the body grows strong and hardy, and the little heart gathersand knits itself together,

And sings, sings, sings,

Sings ail day to its friend whether présent or absent.

This will serve as a point of transition to that peculiar aspect of social love — the *' love of comrades,"— of which Walt Whitman is the prophet in the modem world. Carpenter has given expression to it in lolails, an Anthology of Friendship, and in such poems as " The Elder Soldier to the Younger/' ^ " Philolaus to Diodes/'*

1 r. D., p. 2/7. « ibid., p. 413.