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