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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577924" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The race is to the swift</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happy be or sad, like a long journey<br>Life is, and burden man aught to carry, <br>Heavy— let thine step be slow and steady, <br>That ye should stumble not in a hurry, <br>Old Buddhist wisdom, feeling its oats, said; <br>Be steady and firm like a mountain wall, <br>Deep like ocean, mild like moon to thine stead, <br>Echoed Jain thought; it matters none at all<br>How slow ye walk long as ye walk the way, <br>A Confucius creed more chaos did spread; <br>In too much of hurry, ye go astray, <br>Slow down to no movement, reach there un-sped, <br>Pondered Osho; the race, said Christ, not to the swift, <br>Shall thine goal gift; but world still races to the lift! <br>_____________________________________________ __________<br>This is a tongue-in-cheek kind of sonnet. Thoughts presented <br>are serious, but the underlying tone is light. All spiritual <br>wisdom advises men to move slow and steady to the goal, and <br>yet the world seems to be in a mad hurry; it's a rat race in <br>every field, as the Volta, just half of the last (14th) line suggests.<br>The end couplet reflects the rush to conclude, and in the <br>process, could not afford to be brief, ending up two syllable <br>longer! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have all noticed, an orderly queue awaiting arrival of the <br>elevator in a tall building. But the moment the lift reaches the <br>spot, everyone starts pushing forward in a scramble. This is what <br>I call automobile culture, what we all do while driving on a busy <br>city road— pushing. This is what ‘race to the lift' means. Today <br>we admire the swift rabbit, not the slow and steady turtle of the <br>popular Panchatantra story. <br>_____________________________________________ _________________<br> - Sonnets | 02.12.11 |</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aniruddha+Pathak">Aniruddha Pathak</a><div class=q>
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Life is, and burden man aught to carry, 
Heavy— let thine step be slow and steady, 
That ye should stumble not in a hurry, 
Old Buddhist wisdom, feeling its oats, said; 
Be steady and firm like a mountain wal..."></div>
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