No one in our family ever touched his hand <br />Yet reading holds many treasures <br />Given only for the price of time <br />So Albert Schweitzer can touch <br />One never met in person with his life sublime. <br /> <br />Gandhi cost me a fortune yet I never met him either <br />Their lives ones of the most striking integrity <br />But Schweitzer left a phrase that travels with me - <br />'Reverence for life' - not a bad phrase for a rural boy <br />Who once killed twenty three wood chucks <br />On what I thought was a great spring vacation.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/uncle-al-s-legacy/
