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

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

Service really speaks to my heart, his early death was a real tragedy for
all poetry lovers. Especially considering what passes for poetry now.

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"
>
> 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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> ->> The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust
> ->> caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched
> ->> --Thoreau
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