A Poem For Today - [Words carved in a limestone boulder]

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KEN DICKINSON

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Feb 3, 2026, 11:46:31 AMFeb 3
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[Words carved in a limestone boulder]

Leonidas of Tarentum (Italy, third century BCE)

You—passing through on foot and alone—don't drink 
this sun-staled water, clouded with slime. Beyond 
these grazing cows, much farther uphill, go under 
that far pine, which all the shepherds know. You'll find 
a sweet clear spring gushing from deep in the rock. 
It's even colder than the snows far to the north of here.

Reginald Gibbons


Chris Wells

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Feb 3, 2026, 11:57:25 AMFeb 3
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I love this - thanks Ken!

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Kurt Heyl

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Feb 3, 2026, 12:13:24 PMFeb 3
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Thanks Ken!

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