RE: OUR VIDEO MEET

 Hi , Marissa,

 

You may recollect that  during our video meet , while wondering whether someday others may want to launch their DIGITAL AVATAR like mine ( no doubt , having generated their own MEMORY BLOCKS on Personal.ai ), I mentioned a poem , “ Calf Path “

 

Here it is

 

I await the Video which you planned to upload on Youtube

 

Hemen

 

 

 

The Calf-Path

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Sam Foss

I.

One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;

But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.

Since then three hundred years have fled,
And I infer the calf is dead.

 

II.

But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.

The trail was taken up next day,
By a lone dog that passed that way;

And then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep,

And drew the flock behind him, too,
As good bell-wethers always do.

And from that day, o'er hill and glade.
Through those old woods a path was made.


III.

And many men wound in and out,
And dodged, and turned, and bent about,

And uttered words of righteous wrath,
Because 'twas such a crooked path;

But still they followed—do not laugh—
The first migrations of that calf,

And through this winding wood-way stalked
Because he wobbled when he walked.


IV.

This forest path became a lane,
that bent and turned and turned again;

This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse with his load

Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And traveled some three miles in one.

And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that calf.


V.

The years passed on in swiftness fleet,
The road became a village street;

And this, before men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare.

And soon the central street was this
Of a renowned metropolis;

And men two centuries and a half,
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.


VI.

Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed the zigzag calf about

And o'er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.

A Hundred thousand men were led,
By one calf near three centuries dead.

They followed still his crooked way,
And lost one hundred years a day;

For thus such reverence is lent,
To well established precedent.
 

VII.

A moral lesson this might teach
Were I ordained and called to preach;

For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf-paths of the mind,

And work away from sun to sun,
To do what other men have done.

They follow in the beaten track,
And out and in, and forth and back,

And still their devious course pursue,
To keep the path that others do.

They keep the path a sacred groove,
Along which all their lives they move.

But how the wise old wood gods laugh,
Who saw the first primeval calf.

Ah, many things this tale might teach—
But I am not ordained to preach.

 

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This poem is in the public domain.

 

 

From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]

 

Sent: 21 November 2023 13:42

To: Marissa Brassfield (marissa@ridiculouslyefficient.com)

Cc: 's@personal.ai'

 

Subject: OUR VIDEO MEET

 

Hello , Marissa :

 

My apologies for being late in admitting that I thoroughly enjoyed talking to you during our video meet , on 10^th Nov

 

I now await that VIDEO

 

Regards,

 

Hemen

 

www.hemenparekh.ai