Friendship and Love 



A Mutual Friend Addresses Both 



JORDAN AND ANDERSON 1 



Ithaca Palo Alto 

 From the young vine the tendrils reach 



Exploring fingers toward the sun 

 As youth aspires, in riming speech, 

 To phrase a friendship but begun. 



And from the gnarled vine's crest of flowers 

 Soft wreathing spirals still put forth 



As, rarely! in its crowning hours 



Age sings a lifelong comrade's worth. 



So have we heard with happy tears 



Your friendship's music through the years. 



"CAROLUS ACER" 



The Author Further Discloses His Philosophy 

 "EccE HOMO" 



There was a man who saw God face to face: 

 His countenance and vestments evermore 

 Glowed with a light that never shone before, 



Saving from him who saw God face to face. 



And men, anear him for a little space, 



Were sorely vexed at the unwonted light. 



Those whom the light did blind rose angrily; 



They bore his body to a mountain height 

 And nailed it to a tree; then went their way. 

 And he resisted not nor said them nay, 



Because that he had seen God face to face. 



There was a man who saw Life face to face; 



And ever as he walked from day to day, 



The deathless mystery of being lay 

 Plain as the path he trod in loneliness; 



1 Written at an emotional moment (in the office) after reading Jordan's 

 verses to Anderson on the completion of the Dante translation. 



C. K. F. 12-28-21 



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