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 Post subject: The Bridge Builder
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:08 am 
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The Bridge Builder
By Will Allen Dromgoole
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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!”

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 Post subject: Re: The Bridge Builder
PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:25 am 
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Pontifex, one who builds bridges :mrgreen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifex_ ... #Etymology

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 Post subject: Re: The Bridge Builder
PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:36 am 
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peregrinus wrote: *
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!
:)

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You may follow one stream. Know that it leads to the Ocean, but do not mistake the stream for the Ocean.


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