Underwoods/It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth

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Underwoods
by Robert Louis Stevenson
It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth
1890534Underwoods — It's an owercome sooth for age an' youthRobert Louis Stevenson

XVI

It's an owercome sooth for age an' youth
And it brooks wi' nae denial,
That the dearest friends are the auldest friends
And the young are just on trial.


There's a rival bauld wi' young an' auld
And it's him that has bereft me;
For the sürest friends are the auldest friends
And the maist o' mines hae left me.


There are kind hearts still, for friends to fill
And fools to take and break them;
But the nearest friends are the auldest friends
And the grave's the place to seek them.

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.