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FRIENDSHIP TOWN, by                    
First Line: In the meadows near life's highway
Last Line: Glow the lights of friendship town.
Subject(s): Friendship


In the meadows near Life's highway
Threaded through by many a byway,
Sheltered safe from roaring traffic
Rise the towers of Friendship Town.

Here are hands that ease the burden,
Counting service as a guerdon,
Hearts that greet each other's triumph
As it were their own.

There's a freshness and a beauty
That transform routine and duty
To a joyous glad adventure
In the lives of Friendship Town.

Far off in the mountain ranges
Beetling crags loom, dark with danger
And the cliffs slope to deep canyons;
There the soul must climb alone

But undimmed by dark or distance,
Shining still with bright insistence
Through the storm or through the twilight,
Glow the lights of Friendship Town.





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