good books

Good books

 

Good books are friendly things to own

If you are busy they will wait.

They will not call you on 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 are lonesome this you know,

You have friend or two nearby.

 

The fellowship of books is real,

They’re never noisy when you are still,

They disturb you at your meal.

They will comfort you when you are ill.

 

They 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.

 

Collected by Sri E Ramamurthy TGT (Hindi)