The Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness

The Bridge Builder

An old man, going a lone highway,
Came at the evening, cold and gray
To chasm, vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed 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 joyney 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 fee must pass this way.

This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may pit-fall be,
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him:
- Will Allen Dromgoole





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As shown by your actions.
You work to make the world a better place,
More compassionate, you're always reliable.
You uwelcome all into the warmth of your embrace
Dreaming of a Word safe for all people,
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You believe in sharing yourself with others
and are a part of something greater than yourself.
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