New Friends and Old Friends

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New - made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test,
Time and change - are surely best.
Brown may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
Friendship never knows decay.
For'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.
But old friends, alas! may die,
New friends must their place supply.
Cherish friendship in your breast -
New is good, but old is best,
Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.

Joseph Parry

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Nobody

If nobody smiled and nobody cared
 and nobody helped us along.
 If every moment looked after itself and
 good things always went to the strong;
 If nobody cared just a little about you
 and nobody cared about me,
 and we stood alone, in the battle of life,
 What a dreary old world this would be.

 Life is sweet, just because of
 friends we have made
 and the things which in common we share.
 We want to live on, not because of ourselves,
 but because of the people who care.

 It is doing and giving for somebody else
 on which all of life's splendor depends.
 The joy of this world, when you've
 summed it all up,
 is found in the making of friends.

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No Time

I knelt to pray but not for long
I had too much to do
Must hurry off and get to work
for bills would soon be due
And so I said a hurried prayer,
jumped up from off my knees
My christian duty now was done,
my soul could be at ease.

All through the day I had no time,
to speak a word of cheer
No time to speak of Christ to friends,
they'd laugh at me I feared.
No time - no time, too much to do
that was my constant cry
No time to give those in need
at last, T'was time to die...

And when before the Lord I came
I stood with down-cast eyes
within his hands - he held a book,
it was the "book of life"
He looked into the book and said -
"Your name I can not find,
I once was going to write it down -
But never found the time."