[pct-l] Poem - The Men That Don't Fit In

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You might also read (and publish) another Robert Service classic:  "The Cremation of Sam McGee".  Completely hilarious and one every hiker can relate to.  Thank you for publishing "The Men That Don't Fit In", in it's entirety.  I didn't have time today, but wanted to!  Glad you enjoyed it!  And yes, I'll have a book of his poetry with me on the trail!

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hiker97 at aol.com wrote:   Yes, a poem about the fate of all hard core PCT backpackers.  No problem.  This guy is pretty cool in his writing.  I might have to take a book of poems on the next expedition.
 
 See http://www.robertwservice.com/
 
 Cheers, Switchback the Hiker Trash
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 There's a race of men that don't fit in,
     A race that can't stay still;
 So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
     And they roam the world at will.
 They range the field and they rove the flood,
     And they climb the mountain's crest;
 Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
     And they don't know how to rest.
   If they just went straight they might go far;
     They are strong and brave and true;
 But they're always tired of the things that are,
     And they want the strange and new.
 They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
     What a deep mark I would make!"
 So they chop and change, and each fresh move
     Is only a fresh mistake.
   And each forgets, as he strips and runs
     With a brilliant, fitful pace,
 It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
     Who win in the lifelong race.
 And each forgets that his youth has fled,
     Forgets that his prime is past,
 Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
     In the glare of the truth at last.
   He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
     He has just done things by half.
 Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
     And now is the time to laugh.
 Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
     He was never meant to win;
 He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
     He's a man who won't fit in.
  
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