Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth
the peace that was meant to be.
With God as our Father
brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother
in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me.
Let this be the moment now.
With every step I take
let this be my solemn vow;
to take each moment and live
each moment in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.

Anonymous

There is always a place for you at my table,
You never need to be invited.
I'll share ever crust as long as I'm able,
And know you will be delighted.
There is always a place for you by my fire,
And though it may burn to embers,
If warmth and good cheer are your desire
The friend of your heart remembers!
There is always a place for you by my side,
And should the years tears us apart,
I will face lonely moments more satsified
With a place for you in my heart!

Anne Campbell

Alas! they had been friends in Youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And Life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love,
Doth work like madness in the brain.
But never either found another
To free the hollow heart from paining--
They stood aloof, the scars remaining,
Like cliff, which had been rent asunder;
A dreary sea now flows between,
But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder,
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend's face;
For life is a swift and terrible race.

He knows I like him just as well
As in days when I rang his bell
And he rang mine. We were younger then;
And now we are busy, tired men --
Tired with playing a foolish game;
Tired with trying to make a name.

"Tomorrow," I say, "I will call on Jim,
Just show that I'm thinking of him."
But tomorrow comes -- and tomorrow goes;
And the distance between us grows and grows.
Around the corner! Yet miles away....
"Here's a telegram, sir..."
"Jim died today"

And that's what we get, and deserve in the end:
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

Charles Hanson Towne

Friend of my many years!
When the great silence falls, at last, on me,
Let me not leave, to pain and sadden thee,
A memory of tears,

But pleasant thoughts alone
Of one who was thy friendship's honored guest
And drank the wine of consolation pressed
From sorrows of thy own.

I leave with thee a sense
Of hands upheld and trials rendered less -
The unselfish joy which is to helpfulness
Its own great recompense;

The knowledge that from thine,
As from the garments of the Master, stole
Calmness and strength, the virtue which makes whole
And heals without a sign;

Yea more, the assurance strong
That love, which fails of perfect utterance here,
Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere
With its immortal song.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Friendship needs no studied phrases,
Polished face. or winning wiles;
Friendship deals no lavish praises,
Friendship dons no surface smiles.

Friendship follows Nature's diction,
Shun the blandishments of Art,
Boldly severs truth from fiction,
Speaks the language of the heart.

Friendship favors no condition,
Scorns a narrow-minded creed,
Lovingly fulfills its mission,
Be it word or be it deed.

Friendship cheers the faint and weary,
makes the timid spirit brave,
Warms the erring, light the dreary,
Smooths the passage to the grave.

Friendship-pure, unselfish friendship,
All through life's allotted span,
Nurtures, strengthens, widens, lengthens,
Man's relationship with man.

Anonymous


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