<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For George...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(In Memory of the Reverend George Potter...) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How do I tell the world you've gone<br>Old friend, with never a tear, <br>When we knew each other for ever so long<br>In the world that spins out there, <br>For we rubbed along with an easy grace<br>And you taught me how to pray, <br>I thought that you'd see me out, old friend, <br>But death has snatched you away! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I mind when the stage of life was full<br>And we bent our backs to the toil, <br>When the days and the nights weren't long enough<br>And we burned the midnight oil, <br>When we schemed and dreamed of a better world, <br>And we played our part throughout, <br>With what it took, with a wing and a prayer<br>We saw it all work out! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years went by and I saw you still<br>When you called, with that friendly smile, <br>And a joy it was in those afternoons<br>When we'd talk a measured mile, <br>I thought you'd always be there for me, <br>A friendship forged in steel, <br>For friends are few when the friend is true, <br>But the friend in you was real.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now the shadows have lengthened at<br>The long, hard end of things, <br>As I sit in the shaded garden seat<br>And wait for the pain it brings, <br>But how do I tell the world you've gone<br>Old friend, with never a tear, <br>With my eyes awash at your memory, <br>As you're laid to rest out there? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">21 May 2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365731" data-title="For George... de David Lewis Paget" data-description="(In Memory of the Reverend George Potter...) How do I tell the world you've gone Old friend, with never a tear, When we knew each other for ever so long In the world that spins out there, For we rubbed along with an easy grace And you taught m..."></div> </div> </div>

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