Friendship by Henry Beer (Poem)

 Friendship

There are friendships that I cherish

In my daily walk of life.

Friends with whom I meet and labor

In our earthly toil and strife.

Friends among the aged and youthful,

Friends that live from us apart;

Friends of higher rank and station

Find a place within my heart.

But I prize the friendship highest

Of the one whose heart is true;

Friends who live by truth and goodness

And who live in Him anew.

Friends who's hearts are up in heaven,

Though their feet traverse this sod,

Find a place of highest merit

In our fellowship with God.

There's a tie of noble kinship

In a soul who loves the Lord,

There's a friendship warm and lasting

If he heeds the Master's Word.

There is a mutual understanding

And a sympathy so kind

In the tie of Christian friendship,

As in earth sometimes we find.

When at last these ties are riven,

When we're called to go on high,

Oh, how sweet to meet in heaven,

Friends forever - you and I.

My Garden of Verse

By Henry Beer

Page 238