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I knew a man by sight,
A blameless wight,
Who, for a year or more,
Had daily passed my door,
Yet converse none had had with him.
I met him in a lane,
Him and his cane,
About three miles from home,
Where I had chanced to roam,
And volumes stared at him, and he at me.
In a more distant place
I glimpsed his face,
And bowed instinctively;
Starting he bowed to me,
Bowed simultaneously, and passed along.
Next, in a foreign land
I grasped his hand,
And had a social chat,
About this thing and that,
As I had known him well a thousand years.
Late in a wilderness
I shared his mess,
For he had hardships seen,
And I a wanderer been;
He was my bosom friend, and I was his.
And as, methinks, shall all,
Both great and small,
That ever lived on earth,
Early or late their birth,
Stranger and foe, one day each other know.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nenita24 Mbaye
(5/11/2007 5:07:00 PM) |
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Daphne Grant
(3/12/2007 12:37:00 PM) |
I think, and I may be wrong that the mystery of life is somehow in the Author's mind. How many friends we might have made it's all a question of circumstance, the where and the when.It's like Dons No man is an island too. And another quotation, that an enemy is out there, turn him into a friend.
Daphne Grant
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Terri Lynn Baker
(6/10/2006 10:40:00 AM) |
When One Writes or Paints a picture...This comes from the HEART.
If others choose to respond or view This...These reactions come from the SOUL.
How One decides to *PERCEIVE IT ALL...IS entirely up to themselves.
~SUPPORT IS STRENGTH~
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