­ª¡¡Our Mission "The Bridge Builder"

­ª¡¡Our Mission "The Bridge Builder"

I close my speech with this selected poem entitled,¡ÈThe Bridge Builder¡É by Will Allen Dromgoole.

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¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡The Bridge Builder

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡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 fears 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 must pass this way;

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡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 the bridge for him.¡È

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