A lively, frank, engaging, generous boy.
At school each other’s prompters, day by day
Companions in the frolic or the fray;
Prompt in disputes—we never sought the cause;
The laws of friendship were our only laws:
We ask’d not how or why the strife began,
But David’s foe was foe to Jonathan.
In after-years my Friend, the elder boy,
Would speak of Love, its tumult and its joy; 20
A new and strong emotion, thus imprest,