🔵 By Thomas Riffenburg. Photo by lauragrafie.
There are men who find their nights fraught with worry and frustration, despair and aching tiredness of spirit. For such men have dared to esteem the ideals of truth, beauty and goodness upon this earthly domain of life. Such men are contrary to life, for while upon the lands of dirt and rock, they order their steps from a land of higher planes, and attempt to bring down ideals from above upon this, the land of lifes’ ideals. Such a thing life cannot permit, so with the only weapons available to assault such a thing, heaviness and despair are sent forth in never-ending battalions in an attempt to drive such men to their knees and bring about the belief of foolish futileness of higher ideals within the lands and hearts of men. Such men as refuse to surrender compromise upon those things laid upon their hearts, are the best of all us men. For without their courage, the light from distant lands of perfection would cease to shine upon our world, and en would lose the knowledge of such things as would make us great. Let not these living sufferers lose heart at the noble struggle they engage in; let not these men forsake the higher path upon which they have chose to trod. For truly such en are our daily guides and sustainers of humanity virtues. Surely one such as they cannot but be rewarded in some glorious way in life to come, or else, let them always take comfort in the knowledge that they are the Noble Men, better than the rest of us, for they courageously dare to be.
“Hurl your lasso upon high,
with great effort pull Noble Man,
bring down that wonder to men,
shine that light before our eyes,
within our hearts,
and let us gaze and know true majesty,
give us ideals worthy to strive,
greatness comes not only in what’s next,
but can be grown here and now,
within our lives,
never lose courage,
never lose your faith,
be strong and finish,
the Noble Man’s race.”