Poem

“Everyone's Friend”

by Henry Lawson · 1910

“Nobody’s enemy save his own”—

(What shall it be in the end?)—

Still by the nick-name he is known—

“Everyone’s Friend.”

“Nobody’s Enemy” stands alone

While he has money to lend,

“Nobody’s Enemy” holds his own,

“Everyone’s Friend”

“Nobody’s Enemy” down and out—

Game to the end—

And he mostly dies with no one about—

“Everyone’s Friend.”

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Canonical recordPOEM-000049

Copy-textHenry Lawson — The Skyline Riders and Other Verses; selected digital copy-text retained exactly; complete University of Sydney institutional edition independently corroborates substantive wording and meaningful selected-copy layout under D-180/D-208

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Rights determinationRGT-001031

Text statusCANONICAL TEXT READY

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