Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAKING FRIENDS, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN


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MAKING FRIENDS, by                    
First Line: The fine art of forming friendships
Last Line: Ev'ry day a glad new year.
Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


The fine art of forming friendships
Shows your fellows that you care;
Kindness, in whatever language,
Helps to make friends everywhere.

Light your face with high approval,
Sleight the faults and praise the fine;
Cheer your neighbors with your interest,
Make them feel that life's divine.

Making friends is small compared with
Keeping friends through strain and tears;
Only on the cross unselfish,
Can we hold them through the years.

Unexpressed appreciation,
Often wounds the dearest friends;
Flow'rs to drape the sable casket,
Are too late to make amends.

Smiles and words of warm affection,
Check resentment's rushing flow;
Hearts with tender ties dissevered,
Yield when love won't let them go.

Making friends with God, our Father,
Gives the One best Friend of all;
He will never leave, forsake us,
Always hears us when we call.

Christmas strengthens friendship's circle
As the Christ draws strangely near;
Ev'ry hour with Him is Christmas,
Ev'ry day a glad New Year.





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