Verse by Caleb Mannan

If you like Robert Service, Longfellow, Tolkien, Milton, Robinson Jeffers, Whitman, Poe, The Bible, Tennyson, Ray Bradbury, life, death, Untermeyer, Pound, Donne, joy, sorrow, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, children, beauty, Dante, Tom Waits, then set yourself down beside this fire.

Friday, December 11, 2009

II. Laurels


Resting on your laurels
Is never a wise to-do
For resting on your laurels
How shall they rest on you?
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  1. CalebDecember 11, 2009 at 8:39 AM

    Laurels is and oldie but goody that has become a staple for myself. I can just see my son rolling his eyes as a teenager when I quote this at him as a lesson on false pride.

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