[at-l] Another Robert Service quote...

[rbenhameda at comcast.net (Rami)]

Bryan,

Great post with great timing.

I read your post after returning from the airport.  This poem perfectly
describes a friend who's visa expired and had to return to Europe (hence
the trip to the airport).  He is miserable and wants to fit in but
doesn't.  This is almost too sad to send to him.  I'm debating it, but
we're all pretty sad at his leaving, him worst of all.

Thanks for the post.

-r



-->Bryan Kramer said, on Monday, November 03, 2003 7:07 PM
->
->I am a big Service fan:
->
->There's a race of men that don't fit in,
->    A race that can't stay still;
->So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
->    And they roam the world at will.
->They range the field and they rove the flood,
->    And they climb the mountain's crest;
->Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
->    And they don't know how to rest.
->
->If they just went straight they might go far;
->    They are strong and brave and true;
->But they're always tired of the things that are,
->    And they want the strange and new.
->They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
->    What a deep mark I would make!"
->So they chop and change, and each fresh move
->    Is only a fresh mistake.
->
->And each forgets, as he strips and runs
->    With a brilliant, fitful pace,
->It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
->    Who win in the lifelong race.
->And each forgets that his youth has fled,
->    Forgets that his prime is past,
->Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
->    In the glare of the truth at last.
->
->He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
->    He has just done things by half.
->Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
->    And now is the time to laugh.
->Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
->    He was never meant to win;
->He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
->    He's a man who won't fit in.
->
->
->
->"Si vis pacem para bellum"
->
->> -----Original Message-----
->> From: at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
->> [mailto:at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net]On Behalf Of
->Paul Magnanti
->> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 23:42
->> To: at-l@backcountry.net
->> Subject: [at-l] Another Robert Service quote...
->>
->>
->> I felt like reading some more Robert Service. This
->> little snippet may also apply to some of us. Enjoy.
->>
->> I am one of you no longer;
->> by the trails my feet have broken,
->> The dizzy peaks Ive scaled, the camp-fires glow;
->> By the lonely seas Ive sailed in
->> yea, the final word is spoken,
->> I am signed and sealed to nature. Be it so.
->> -Robert Service, from THE RHYME OF THE REMITTANCE MAN
->>
->>
->> =====
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->> caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched
->> --Thoreau
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