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By dsc1155 SILVER
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Hush, young child, Your father has fallen, And awakened the dead of the night. Don’t fear, but prevail. Don’t forget, but move on. Your father was a vision for history, Your...
dsc1155 SILVER, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
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LOITERING with a vacant eye<br /> Along the Grecian gallery,<br /> <br /> And brooding on my heavy ill,<br /> <br /> I met a statue standing still.<br /> <br /> Still in marble stone stood he,<br /> And stedfastly he looked at me.<br /> <br /> &lsquo;Well met,&rsquo; I thought the look would say,<br /> <br /> &lsquo;We both were fashioned far away;<br /> <br /> We neither knew, when we were young,<br /> <br /> These Londoners we live among.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> <br /> Still he stood and eyed me hard,<br /> <br /> An earnest and a grave regard:<br /> <br /> &lsquo;What, lad, drooping with your lot?<br /> <br /> I too would be where I am not.<br /> <br /> I too survey that endless line<br /> Of men whose thoughts are not as mine.<br /> <br /> Years, ere you stood up from rest,<br /> <br /> On my neck the collar prest;<br /> <br /> Years, when you lay down your ill,<br /> <br /> I shall stand and bear it still.<br /> Courage, lad, &rsquo;tis not for long:<br /> <br /> Stand, quit you like stone, be strong.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> So I thought his look would say;<br /> <br /> And light on me my trouble lay,<br /> <br /> And I slept out in flesh and bone<br /> Manful like the man of stone.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -A.E. Housman


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bgc123 BRONZE, Malden, Massachusetts
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Pass Christian, Mississippi
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Pass Christian, Mississippi
Van-Auditorie SILVER, Pass Christian, Mississippi
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Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo Da Vinci

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East Jordan, Michigan
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By Van-Auditorie SILVER
Pass Christian, Mississippi
Van-Auditorie SILVER, Pass Christian, Mississippi
6 articles 7 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo Da Vinci

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By Van-Auditorie SILVER
Pass Christian, Mississippi
Van-Auditorie SILVER, Pass Christian, Mississippi
6 articles 7 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo Da Vinci