Use Worldly Wealth to Make Friends for Yourself

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Change your clothes; head to the shack
Then when you’re done I’ll bring you back
I’ll change your mind so you won’t cherish
The things on earth which soon will perish

I want you to look deep within
Right past the flesh of sinful man

So, search your brothers for the truth
They may have lost while in their youth
Then you can bring them back again
To find that you have made a friend
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Written on September 10, 2016

Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB XX CCXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 392
Words 77
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4

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