Ah Friends . . .

ah friends, dear friends

as years go by and heads get gray

how fast the guests do go

touch hands 

touch hands with those who stay

strong hands to weak

old hands to young

around the Christmas Board

touch hands

the false forget

the foe forgive

for every guest will go

and fire burn low and cabin empty stand

forget

forgive

for who may say that Christmas Day

may ever come to host or guest again

Touch Hands

~

this writing was on a card given to me in nineteen sixty one

from a teacher friend in my first year of teaching

the writing was from one of her family members 

William Henry Harrison Murray

1840-1904

~

Merry Christmas

love

lynne