The poem expresses the speaker's wish to be as good a friend to the recipient as they have been to the speaker. The speaker wants to help and support the recipient as much as the recipient has helped them, and to make the recipient feel as happy and uplifted as the recipient has made the speaker feel. The document also lists the symbolic meanings of different colored roses and what each color represents - including friendship, love, wealth, knowledge, success, happiness, beauty, honesty, family and health.

1. A Friend's Greetings FOR YOU

2. I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me; I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

3. I'd like to do the big things and the splendid things for you, To brush the gray from out your skies and leave them only blue; I'd like to say the kindly things that I so oft have heard, And feel that I could rouse your soul the way that mine you've stirred .

4. I'd like to give you back the joy that you have given me, Yet that were wishing you a need I hope will never be; I'd like to make you feel as rich as I, who travel on Undaunted in the darkest hours with you lean upon.

5. I'm wishing at this time that I could but repay A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way; And could I have one wish this year, this only would it be: I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.

6. One rose for friendship White: innocence, purity, secrecy, friendship, reverence and humility.

7. A second one for love Red rose: Deepest love and respect.

8. One for financial wealth

9. One for knowledge

10. One for success

11. One for happiness

12. One for beauty

13. One for honesty

14. One for family

15. And the last one for a long and healthy life!