[Vision2020] The Bridge Builder

[Tom Hansen]

The Bridge Builder
Author unknown

An old man going a lone highway, 
Came, at the evening cold and gray, 
To a chasm vast and deep and wide, 
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 your strength with building here; 
Your journey will end with the ending day, 
Yon never again will pass this way; 
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide, 
Why build this bridge at evening tide?" 

The builder lifted his old gray head; 
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, 
"There followed after me to-day 
A youth whose feet must pass this way. 
This chasm that has been as 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!" 

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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.net

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
- Roy E. Stolworthy
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