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Author: | peregrinus [ Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:08 am ] | |
Post subject: | The Bridge Builder | |
The Bridge Builder By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. Through which was flowing a sullen tide The old man crossed in the twilight dim, The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other side And built a bridge to span the tide. “Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting your strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day, You never again will pass this way; You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide, Why build this bridge at evening tide?” The builder lifted his old gray head; “Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said, “There followed after me to-day A youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm that has been as naught to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!” |
Author: | Jared [ Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:25 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Bridge Builder |
Pontifex, one who builds bridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_ ... #Etymology |
Author: | Hineini [ Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:36 am ] | ||
Post subject: | Re: The Bridge Builder | ||
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him! |
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