No one in my family ever touched his hand <br />Yet reading holds many treasures <br />Given for the price of time <br />So Albert Schweitzer's life has touched mine. <br /> <br />Gandhi cost me a fortune yet I never met him <br />Their lives ones of the most striking integrity <br />Though Schweizer gave a phrase - <br />That travels with me - 'Reverence for life' <br />Not a bad phrase for a rural boy <br />Who has come a long way <br />From killing woodchucks for sport.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/uncle-al-s-legacy-rewrite/
