1 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 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 you this bridge at the evening tide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today,
A youth, whose feet must pass this way.

This chasm, that has been 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."

Photo credit: Muza-chan.net

The Shinkyo (神橋) Bridge from Nikko, crossing the Daiya river.

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I’ve known a bridge builder or few..

Vince McCollugh
Greta Pruitt 
Barbara Clark
Richard Feynman
Charles Thomas
Abraham Maslow
Liz Cooley
Patricia Vining

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