And as you grow older, you will resort to it more,
For the pursuit of knowledge is an ever widening door.
Skeptics may scorn the above remark,
Let those non-believers remain perpetually in the dark.
Ignorance is theirs to be forever nourished in their breast,
For they will never know or envision life at its best.
Time alone will prove the accuracy of these statements,
my dear.
The all-powerful human mind is indeed The Last Frontier.
~K. E. Dabney, copyright 2010
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This poem was written by my father, Hayes G. Dabney, Sr., in a Bartlett’s Quotations for my sister and Roget’s Thesaurus for me. We were only 10 and 9 years old at the time.
I am happy to say his words were an inspiration and that there was never any doubt of their veracity. My father lived to see them come true through all of his four children. He prized knowledge as he loved us.
I used the poem in The Magic Pencil as a way to share it with the world!
