Psyche, and other poems — page 199: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a page of running prose—specifically, a four-line poem or verse numbered 181. The text expresses a sentiment about friendship, asking that a friend be a "mirror as true" to reflect one's faults privately rather than exposing them to others. The speaker requests that the friend neither reveal nor dwell upon failings that should remain hidden "from Heaven and from man." The passage appears to be moral or sentimental verse typical of Victorian-era popular literature, though the broader context and source remain unclear from this page alone.