Celestial: Something To Live By    
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30 Mar 2005 @ 13:45, by celestial

author: Dorothea Simons Kopplin

A pilgrim, going a lone highway
Came at evening, cold and gray
To a chasm, deep and vast and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
But he paused when he reached the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"Why waste your time in building here?
Your journey ends with the close of day
You'll never again pass this way.
You've crossed the chasm deep and wide
Why build ye here at eventide?"

The pilgrim raised his old gray head,
"My friend in the path, I've come," he said,
"For there followeth after me today
A fair haired youth who must pass this way.
The chasm which held no fears for me
To the fair haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
My friend, I am building this bridge for him."


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27 Apr 2007 @ 01:26 by Rumpelstiltskin @71.198.228.196 : To my son
Do you know that your soul is of my soul such part
that you seem to be fibre and core of my heart?
None other can pain me as you,son,can do;
None other can please me or praise me as you.
Remeber the world will be quick with its blame
If shadow or stain ever darken your name.
Like mother,like son,is the saying so true
The world will judge largely of mother by you.
Be this than your task it shall be,
To force this proud world to do homage to me.
Be sure it will say,When its verdict you've won,
She reaps as she sowed.This man is her son.
Dorothea S.Kopplin  

10 May 2007 @ 17:59 by celestial : Mother is Thee Queen.
 

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