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When trouble comes your soul to try,
You love the friend who just "stands by."
Perhaps there's nothing they can do~
The thing is strictly up to you;
For there are troubles all your own,
And paths the soul must tread alone;
Times when love cannot smooth the road,
Nor friendship lift the heavy load.
But just to know you have a friend,
Who will "stand by" you until the end,
Whose sympathy through all endures,
Whose warm safe hug is always yours~
It helps, someway, to pull you through,
Although there's nothing they can do.
And so with fervent heart you cry,
"God bless this friend who just *stands
by!*"
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