Subject: Commonplace

From: Oliver John Golden <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 14:39:10 -0500

Jack London
in _The Call of the Wild_

 Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on,
   Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
 Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon,
   Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
 Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking 
   through it,
   Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
 Have you strung your soul to silence?  Then for God's sake go and do it;
   Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.