24-04-2004, 03:58 AM
Great thread.
There are a few words that remind me of someone who was fighting an illness, with great inner strength and courageÂ… a failing body, but a great mindÂ…
ItÂ’s 4.30am and I canÂ’t check the text, but I can remember some of it I thinkÂ… it goes something like this:
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down
It may be that we shall touch the happy isles
And see the great Achilles whom we knew
Though much is taken, much still abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved Earth and Heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, yet strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
He never yielded.
The Phoenix
(I think the words are WordsworthÂ… I will look it up tomorrow.)
There are a few words that remind me of someone who was fighting an illness, with great inner strength and courageÂ… a failing body, but a great mindÂ…
ItÂ’s 4.30am and I canÂ’t check the text, but I can remember some of it I thinkÂ… it goes something like this:
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down
It may be that we shall touch the happy isles
And see the great Achilles whom we knew
Though much is taken, much still abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved Earth and Heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, yet strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
He never yielded.
The Phoenix
(I think the words are WordsworthÂ… I will look it up tomorrow.)