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TO KY FRIEND 
 
TO MY FRIEND 
 
 By 
 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 
 
 Decorated by 
 Emily Hall Chamberlain 
 
 The BobbS' Merrill Company 
 publishers 
 
Copyright, 1883, 1888, 1891, 1910, 1913. 1914 
 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY 
 
 SEP iCI9l4 
 
 CI.A370454 
 

 You alius had a 
 kind word of 
 counsul to impart. 
 
 Which was like a 
 healin' 'intment to 
 the sorrow of 
 my hart. 
 
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 And sence 1 can 
 remember, from 
 the time we've 
 neghbored here. 
 
 In all sich friendly 
 actions you have 
 double-done your 
 sheer. 
 
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 Ways was devius, 
 William Leachman, 
 that me and you 
 
 has past; 
 
 But as 1 found you 
 true at first, 1 find 
 you true at last 
 
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And, now the 
 time's a-comin' 
 mighty nigh our 
 jurney's end. 
 
 I want to throw 
 wide open all my 
 soul to you, 
 
 my friend. 
 
With the stren th 
 of all my bein , 
 and the heat of 
 hart and brane, 
 
 And ev'ry livin 
 drop of blood in 
 artery and vane, 
 
When we had to 
 go on hoss-back, 
 and sometimes 
 on "Shanks's mare/' 
 
 And "blaze" a road 
 fer them behind 
 that had to travel 
 thare. 
 
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 WM 
 
 And now we was 
 a-trottin 'long a 
 level gravel pike, 
 
 In a big two-hoss 
 road-wagon, jest 
 as easy as you 
 like- 
 
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