Cultivate their kindness, seek them out with honour, and be the screening Japhet to their failings:
And be ye wiser,—(I speak unto the fathers)—gain those filial comrades,
Cherish their reasonable converse, and look not with coldness on your children.
For the friendship of a child is the brightest gem set upon the circlet of Society,
A jewel worth a world of pains—a jewel seldom seen.
The third cycle on the waters, another of those rings upon the onyx,
A further definite broad zone, holdeth kith and kin:
A motley band of many tribes, and under various banners;
The intimate and strangers, the known and loved, or only seen for loathing:
Some, dear for their deserts, shall honour and have honour of relationship,