Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Greybeards at Play, by G. K. Chesterton

He was, through boyhood's storm and shower,
My best, my nearest friend;
We wore one hat, smoked one cigar,
One standing at each end.
We were two hearts with single hope,
Two faces in one hood;
I knew the secrets of his youth;
I watched his every mood.
The little things that none but I
Saw were beyond his wont,