rwantin wrote:One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Uh, was by another Robert.
From yet another 'Robert' (W. Service)
When I was daft, as urchins are
And full of fairy lore
I shot an arrow at a star
And hit - the barnyard door!
I've shot at heaps of stars since then
And always it's the same;
A barnyard door has mocked me when
Uranus was my aim.
But I'll shoot starward, as before
And tho' wide my arrows fall
I think I'd rather hit a big barn door,
Than never to have aimed at all.
(This was just one of
many of the poems of Robert W. Service that have provided much inspiration in times of doubt.)