My Happy Chum

I've been typing up the poems of my great-grandmother, Kitty Friend, and I thought this one was sweet.

                                  MY HAPPY CHUM

The sun rising with flaming gold

Illumined the dawnlight grey,

And with a strength re-born

In the joy of morn

I hailed another day

And as forth to my daily toil I fared

It seemed that the joy of my heart was shared.

Oh the gladness stayed all through the hours

And made each task a delight,

What mattered to me,

Any difficulty

when Life was so wondrous bright?

for aye it seemed that a Comrade strode

Keeping in step along the road.

The setting sun has disappeared

In a glory of Rose and Pearl,

And in sweet content

As the daylight went

I watched nights' wing unfurl;

For I knew, when eventide was come

I had walked with God, my Happy Chum.