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The Men That Don't Fit In

Alonzo Tubbs

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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 gypsi 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.


Robert Service
"Best Tales of the Yukon"
 
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Alonzo Tubbs

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Ol' Lem was a charter member of the Legion of the Lost. I love to read Robert Service for so many reasons and read this to a house guest the other day. She pointed out the similarities and the poem assumed a life of it's own. Thought I'd share it.
 

Lia

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Alonzo Tubbs, I read somewhere that Gary Gilmore composed that... think I read it in a book about him; do you know if it's true?

In any event, it is a lovely poem; sad and haunting, but lovely. Thanks for sharing...
 
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