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What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name, -- / Riches buried in a cave, / Glory written on a grave.
What is Friendship? Something deep / That the heart can spend and keep: / Wealth that greatens while we give, / Praise that heartens us to live.
Come, my friend, and let us prove / Life's true talisman is love!
By this charm we shall elude / Poverty and solitude.
January 21, 1914.