First Line: BEFRIEND THE FRIENDS YOU HAVE, AND GO Last Line: IS THEFT, AND BRINGETH DEATH AS ALMS. Subject(s): GIFTS & GIVING;
BEFRIEND the friends you have, and go To him who comes to you. Bestow Your gifts on whoso gives: to him Who grudges, give not. Men endow Munificent, not niggard, palms. Bounty is excellent, but grim Is theft, and bringeth death as alms.