<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To An Old Mate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, <br> When our hopes and our troubles were new, <br> In the years spent in wearing out leather, <br> I found you unselfish and true -- <br> I have gathered these verses together <br> For the sake of our friendship and you. <br> <br> You may think for awhile, and with reason, <br> Though still with a kindly regret, <br> That I've left it full late in the season <br> To prove I remember you yet; <br> But you'll never judge me by their treason <br> Who profit by friends -- and forget. <br> <br> I remember, Old Man, I remember -- <br> The tracks that we followed are clear -- <br> The jovial last nights of December, <br> The solemn first days of the year, <br> Long tramps through the clearings and timber, <br> Short partings on platform and pier. <br> <br> I can still feel the spirit that bore us, <br> And often the old stars will shine -- <br> I remember the last spree in chorus <br> For the sake of that other Lang Syne, <br> When the tracks lay divided before us, <br> Your path through the future and mine. <br> <br> Through the frost-wind that cut like whip-lashes, <br> Through the ever-blind haze of the drought -- <br> And in fancy at times by the flashes <br> Of light in the darkness of doubt -- <br> I have followed the tent poles and ashes <br> Of camps that we moved further out. <br> <br> You will find in these pages a trace of <br> That side of our past which was bright, <br> And recognise sometimes the face of <br> A friend who has dropped out of sight -- <br> I send them along in the place of <br> The letters I promised to write.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408976" data-title="To An Old Mate de Henry Lawson" data-description="Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in wearing out leather, I found you unselfish and true -- I have gathered these verses together For the sake of our friendship and you. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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