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Old 01-25-2017, 11:24 AM   #145
Flint
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
The stem is challenged by the wind and it grows firmer.
Always optimistic Tony.
The reed in the wind is a useful metaphor.

Neil Peart tells it like this:

Quote:
Like a solitary pine
On a bare wind-blasted shore
We can only grow the way the wind blows
Rush, Snakes & Arrows, "The Way The Wind Blows"

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We can only grow the way the wind blows
On a bare and weathered shore
We can only bow to the here and now
In our elemental war

We can only grow the way the wind blows
We can only bow to the here and now
Or be broken down blow by blow
And like this:

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Like a forest bows to winter
Beneath the deep white silence
I will quietly resist

Like a flower in the desert
That only blooms at night
I will quietly resist


Rush, Snakes & Arrows, Faithless
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