An old man traveling on a lonely 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 held no fears for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side,
And builded a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," cried a fellow pilgrim near,
"You’re wasting your time in building here.
Your journey will end with the closing day;
You never again will pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm deep and wide,
Why build you this bridge at even-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 stream which has been as naught
To me,
To that fair-haired youth may pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim-
Good friend, I am building this bridge
For him."
- Poem by Will Allen Dromgoole
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail
of a bridge and lean over to watch the river
slipping slowly away beneath you, you will
suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Quote by Winnie the Pooh
There is a land of the living
and a land of the dead and
the bridge is love,
the only survival,
the only meaning.
- Quote by Thornton Wilder
There's a fine line between
character building
and soul destroying.
- Quote by Colin Hay
By swallowing evil words unsaid,
no one has ever harmed his stomach.
- Quote by Winston Churchill
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