A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
Oliver Goldsmith
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.