The Long Way Round

                                The Long Way Round                                        (For my sons)             Your lives’ ambitious targets can be traced […]

                                The Long Way Round

                                       (For my sons)

 

          Your lives’ ambitious targets can be traced

     In each direction my mind thinks to roam

Where I might find some aspect of your taste

     That is your proud intention’s hopeful home.

          I do not ask you how you plan to wrest

     Utopian contentment from so wide,

So multiplex, ranges of interest;

     Nor how priorities could be applied

          To such a plethora of diverse aims.

     For, as you travel where you choose to go

You’ll miss some object of your best hopes’ claims

     And, though thereby you seemingly confound

          Your dearest dreams, you’ll bravely say: “That is not so;

          We just prefer to get there by the long was round!”.

 

 

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