A Thank You For Friends

Photograph 'Gazebo' is from Shari's garden

A THANK YOU FOR FRIENDS
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There are all kinds of men who have done me good turns,

That I still never think about, not for a minute;

Yet if I were making up that sort of grace,

They would, all of them, have to be in it.

One man made up stories, another wrote verses

I found, and I liked, and I read till I knew them.

Another one saw all the things they had written,

Then, being an artist, he drew them.

Another took wood and a saw and some glue,

And put each of them just in the place that would ned it--

So that in the chair where I sit with my book

And am so much at ease as I read it.

I'm forgetting the one who read tale after tale

When I was too young to know letter from letter,

And the other one who taught me them,

Till in the end I could read for myself--

Which was better.
verse by Rodney Bennett

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