Hymm

By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The fog long since in silence slept,
Alike the conquerer silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept,
Down the dark stream that seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare,
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836

Thought For The Day

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

- Horace Greeley -

Poem For The Day

Listen to the mustn'ts child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shoudn't haves,
the impossibles, the won'ts
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me.
Anything can happen child.
Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein -

Quote Of The Day

"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing, and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

Baseball Thoughts

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti -

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, and the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
- Rod Kanehl -

Thoughts For The Day

Never insult seven men when all you're packing is a six-shooter.
- Zane Grey -

You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
- Elbert Hubbard -

Thought For The Day

Why in the world
Would anybody put chains on me?
I've paid my dues to make it.
Everbody wants me to be
What they want me to be.
I'm not happy when I try to fake it!

- Lionel Richie and the Commodores from "Easy Like Sunday Morning" -