Tennyson! O! How richly mid-Victorian! For no other reason than that these have stuck in my head from my boyhood:
1. He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. 2. Come, my friends, T’is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; 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. 3. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. Patrick "Bugger the Light Brigade" Moore On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > On 07/24/2017 09:05 PM, GAJett wrote: > > I have a RapidRise on my AHH, with newish (2010) Shimano indexed/friction > barcons. Absolutely love them. On my '73 Raleigh Competition I currently have > shifters on the downtube, but will shortly return to '70's vintage Shimano > barcons (the ones with the inner spring mechanism). > > While I still make mistakes with the RapidRise, they are minor and don't > bother me (decades riding pre-RapidRise made some habits). But I really > don't expect moving back and forth to be much of a problem. (I make many more > mistakes with the twist-shifter on my Bike Friday.) > > > > > Ah, but at some point you surely will, because Shimano has abandoned Rapid > Rise and gone back to "regular" and when the one you have wears out, this > will be you: > > > *She left the web, she left the loom * > *She made three paces thro' the room * > *She saw the water-flower bloom, * > *She saw the helmet and the plume, * > * She look'd down to Camelot. * > *Out flew the web and floated wide; * > *The mirror crack'd from side to side; * > *'The curse is come upon me,' cried * > > > * The Lady of Shalott. * > > [Here's looking at you, Bill!] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *Interested in trading resume, LinkedIn, and other writing work for professional (professional) help with marketing and growing my resumes, etc. business. Respondents should have considerable experience in helping small, online businesses grow. Please contact me at patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com <patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com>. Thanks.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
