Show A day with friends A day with friends away from care and all the burdens men must bear away from every urgent need from selfishness and petty greed where talk is all of books and plays and bygone joys of yesterdays A day with friends and let it be beneath some spreading maple tree where noise and clamor never break the calm which sky and meadow make where never traffics dusty pace blots out the beauty of the place where each for all and all for each there is no cunning in the speech no thought of profit save ane gain in liveliness of heart and brain and those more lasting riches wrought by friendly interchange of thought A day with friends throughout the years but seldom such a day appears when fame and money hope and doubt and gain and loss are all shut out and every thought uttered springs from dreams and sweet imaginings |