A BAG OF TOOLS
Isn’t it strange
The princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make----
Ere life is flown----
A stumbling block
Or a stepping stone.
The
writer of this poem is the American poet R.L.Sharpe (1870s—1950s}. He tells the
readers that there are all sorts of people in the world. You have kings and clowns, princes and common people. All these
people are born to make something. This is the universal and eternal law of the
world. Each one of us is given a bag of
tools and a book of rules. It depends on us what we make --a stumbling block or
a stepping stone, that is what keeps us back or what leads us on. However, each
one of us irrespective of his rank has to make something before he depart from
this world.
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G. R. Kanwal
18th October 2023
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