Virgil! SB beat you to it, but thank you so much! I just love that poem and have to read it in it's entirety every time I see the title! I just did! Twice!!!<br><br><b><i>virgil <virgil@baloney.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:51:21 hiker97@aol.com wrote:<br>> Shweeew writes: As far as the trail calling, I think it is best said by my<br>> favorite "hiker" poem by Robert Service.? It's called "The Men That Don't<br>> Fit In". ------------------------------------------<br>> Wow.? I am going to look up that whole poem.? That is outstanding.<br><br> The Men That Don't Fit In<br> There's a race of men that don't fit in,<br> A race that can't stay still;<br> So they break the hearts of kith and kin,<br> And they roam the world at will.<br> They range the field and they rove the flood,<br> And they climb the
mountain's crest;<br> Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,<br> And they don't know how to rest.<br><br> If they just went straight they might go far;<br> They are strong and brave and true;<br> But they're always tired of the things that are,<br> And they want the strange and new.<br> They say: "Could I find my proper groove,<br> What a deep mark I would make!"<br> So they chop and change, and each fresh move<br> Is only a fresh mistake.<br><br> And each forgets, as he strips and runs<br> With a brilliant, fitful pace,<br> It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones<br> Who win in the lifelong race.<br> And each forgets that his youth has fled,<br> Forgets that his prime is past,<br> Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,<br> In the glare of the truth at last.<br><br> He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;<br> He has just done things by half.<br> Life's been a jolly good joke on him,<br> And now is the time to laugh.<br> Ha, ha! He is one of the
Legion Lost;<br> He was never meant to win;<br> He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;<br> He's a man who won't fit in.<br><br>Robert Service<br><br>-- <br>"I came into this game for adventure - go anywhere, travel light, get in, get<br>out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone."<br><br>Robert De Niro as Harry Tuttle in Brazil.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Pct-l mailing list<br>Pct-l@backcountry.net<br>To unsubscribe or change list options (digest, etc):<br>http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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