GOOD BOOKS BY Edgar Guest

 GOOD BOOKS BY Edgar Guest

Good books are friendly things to own

If you are busy they will wait

They will not call you on the phone

Or wake you if the hour is late

They stand together row by row

Upon the low shelf or the high

But if you’re lonesome this you know

You have a friend or two nearby

The fellowship of books is real

They’re never noisy when you’re still

They won’t disturb you at your meal

They’ll comfort you when you are ill

The lonesome hours they’ll always share

When slighted they will not complain

And though for them you’ve ceased to care

Your constant friends they’ll still remain

Good books your faults will never see

Or tell about them round the town

If you would have their company

You merely have to take them down

They’ll help you pass the time away

They’ll counsel give if that you need

He has true friends for night and day

Who has a few good books to read