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One of this person's white-skinned friends, Bill Hawkins, / Who labours at the waterside, / Had occasion, at the time of unkind weather, / To rescue from the certain peril of drowning / One who had slipped from the edge of a wharf to the dock.
Without reward the flower serves the bee. / The mother serves the child with pain and toil. / The soldier serves his king without king's gratitutde. / And this person has noted with much private amusement, / How, since this one service rendered, / Bill Hawkins goes ever from his accustomed path / To add service to service to the one he rescued; / While the rescued one looks ever upon Bill Hawkins / With eyes of no-approval, indeed, with intense disgust.