MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT KEEP THE OLD;
\nTHOSE ARE SILVER, THESE ARE GOLD.
\nNEW-MADE FRIENDSHIPS, LIKE NEW WINE,
\nAGE WILL MELLOW AND REFINE.
\nFRIENDSHIPS THAT HAVE STOOD THE TEST
\nTIME AND CHANGE ARE SURELY BEST;
\nBROW MAY WRINKLE, HAIR GROW GRAY,
\nFRIENDSHIP NEVER KNOWS DECAY.
\nFOR ‘MID OLD FRIENDS TRIED AND TRUE,
\nONCE MORE WE OUR YOUTH RENEW.
\nBUT OLD FRIENDS, ALAS MAY DIE,
\nNEW FRIENDS MUST THEIR PLACE SUPPLY.
\nCHERISH FRIENDSHIP IN YOUR BREAST
\nNEW IS GOOD, BUT OLD IS BEST;
\nMAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT KEEP THE OLD;
\nTHOSE ARE SILVER, THESE ARE GOLD.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Growing up this was one of my favourite poems…so it was a nice treat to find it online \ud83d\ude42 NEW FRIENDS AND OLD FRIENDS Author: JOSEPH PARRY MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT KEEP THE OLD; THOSE ARE SILVER, THESE ARE GOLD. NEW-MADE FRIENDSHIPS, LIKE NEW WINE, AGE WILL MELLOW AND REFINE. FRIENDSHIPS THAT HAVE STOOD THE … Continue reading Favourite Poem<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}