{"id":177,"date":"2003-12-05T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T12:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-08-27T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T20:23:18","slug":"a-nice-little-postscript-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/05\/a-nice-little-postscript-to\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice little postscript to"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice little postscript to my post<\/a> of a little while ago.<\/p>\n

This is from the liner notes on “Nashville Skyline”, a Bob Dylan album of country songs, on which Johnny Cash was a guest artist.<\/p>\n

“Of Bob Dylan”<\/p>\n

There are those who do not imitate,
\nWho cannot imitate
\nBut then there are those who emulate
\nAt times, to expand further the light
\nOf an original glow.
\nKnowing that to imitate the living
\nIs mockery
\nAnd to imitate the dead
\nIs robbery
\nThere are those
\nWho are beings complete unto themselves
\nWhole, undaunted,-a source
\nAs leaves of grass, as stars
\nAs mountains, alike, alike, alike,
\nYet unalike
\nEach is complete and contained
\nAnd as each unalike star shines
\nEach ray of light is forever gone
\nTo leave way for a new ray
\nAnd a new ray, as from a fountain
\nComplete unto itself, full, flowing
\nSo are some souls like stars
\nAnd their words, works and songs
\nLike strong, quick flashes of light<\/p>\n

From a brilliant, erupting cone.
\nSo where are your mountains
\nTo match some men?<\/p>\n

This man can rhyme the tick of time
\nThe edge of pain, the what of sane
\nAnd comprehend the good in men, the bad in men
\nCan feel the hate of fight, the love of right
\nAnd the creep of blight at the speed of light
\nThe pain of dawn, the gone of gone
\nThe end of friend, the end of end
\nBy math of trend
\nWhat grip to hold what he is told
\nHow long to hold, how strong to hold
\nHow much to hold of what is told.
\nAnd Know
\nThe yield of rend; the break of bend
\nThe scar of mend
\nI’m proud to say that I know it,
\nHere-in is a hell of a poet.
\nAnd lots of other things
\nAnd lots of other things.
\n— Johnny Cash<\/p>\n

Nicely done. I stole this from bobdylan.com, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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