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Dylan Thomas had a good idea...

William Garza

Veteran Member
Time of past OR future Camino
Camino Frances, The Jakobsweg
Dylan Thomas wrote

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Pilgrim
Do not go gentle into that "good" nite
Walk because you must do so to fight against the dying of your light.
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.

There is always another light. That of Stars, and I follow mine !

Samarkand.
 
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Perhaps these words
from Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson are relevant for the those of us in the dimming light

"...and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
 
Exquisite.!
 

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