Quote of the Day (Poet W.W. Gibson, on a True Friend)

“But if all songs should fail me

And friend fail after friend,

I’ll still have you,

O tried and true –

I’ll still have you, and a stone in my shoe

To the end.”— British poet W.W. Gibson (1878-1962), “The Empty Purse,” in Hill-Tracks (1918)

The image accompanying this post, from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, shows (left to right) Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins and Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee. I regard "Sam" as the epitome of the dependable, decent, intensely loyal, stout-hearted friend hailed in Gibson’s poem.

I hope that everyone reading this has had at least one person in his or her life like Sam. If that’s not possible, I hope we can all strive to be like him in our own lives.