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List of Poems
GOOD TIMBER
By Douglas Malloch
The man who never had to toil Beyond this place of wrath and tears
To gain and farm his patch of soil, Looms but the Horror of the shade,
Who never had to win his share And yet the menace of the years
Of sun and sky and light and air, Finds and shall find me unafraid.
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
Good timber does not grow with ease, I am the master of my fate,
The stronger wind, the stronger trees, I am the captain of my soul.
The further sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength.