The Winners

("The Story of the Gadsbys")

What the moral? Who rides may read.
When the night is thick and the tracks are blind
A friend at a pinch is a friend, indeed,
But a fool to wait for the laggard behind.
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

White hands cling to the tightened rein,
Slipping the spur from the booted heel,
Tenderest voices cry " Turn again!"
Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel,
High hopes faint on a warm hearth-stone--
He travels the fastest who travels alone.

One may fall but he falls by himself--
Falls by himself with himself to blame.
One may attain and to him is pelf--
Loot of the city in Gold or Fame.

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poem by Rudyard Kipling
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Remember we are all but travelers here.

quote by Mary McKillop
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As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

quote by Robert Mondavi
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

quote by Ed Rendell
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Welcome To Ghana

'Akwaaba'! 'Akwaaba'! !
'Akwaaba' to Ghana,
The Black Star of Africa!
Like shopping the past in descent ways,
I have more news fro you;
Welcome to the land of my birth.

Tourism, tourism, tourism!
True tourism comes from Africa! !
Where nature abounds for you to smile always;
So, come to Ghana and see things for yourself.
Visit the Gateway of Africa,
'Akwaaba' to the land of Freedom!

'Ghana your beloved country is free forever'! ! !
Whose idea was it?
Whose vision was it?
Whose motivations was it?
There are many answers to the worls so sweet when,
You do visit us in Ghana;

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poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

classic quote by Federico Garcia Lorca
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Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.

quote by Rudyard Kipling
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

quote by William Blake
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The Traveller

Reply to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘He travels the fastest who travels alone.’

Who travels alone with his eye on the heights,
Though he laughs in the day time oft weeps on the nights;

For courage goes down at the set of the sun,
When the toil of the journey is all borne by one.

He speeds but to grief though full gaily he ride
Who travels alone without love at his side.

Who travels alone without lover of friend
But hurries from nothing, to naught at the end.

Though great be his winnings and high be his goal,
He is bankrupt in wisdom and beggared in soul.

Life’s one gift of value to him is denied
Who travels alone without love at his side.

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poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

quote by Rudyard Kipling
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Unknown Traveler

(Music: DirkschneiderKaufmannGianola - Words: DirkschneiderKaufmann)
I've passed the lonely gates of Babylon
I've touched the ancient pyramids
I've seen the golden face of Taj Mahal
I've felt the sea of Atlantis
I've counted bricks along the China Wall
I've rode the Slopes Of Kathmandu
I've tasted all the rocks of Everest
To the mountains of the moon
I've seen it all
Through time and matter
No more retreat and no more defeat
So hear the call
The final battle
I'm under attack - I want to come back
I am the unknown traveler - always on the move
I am the unknown traveler
I am the unknown traveler - always on the move
I am the unknown traveler
I've joined the table back in Camelot

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song performed by U. D. O.
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

classic quote by George Moore
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Emmaline Conner room 101(contest winner writing.com)

Lids slowly closing, aged eyes rimmed with red
Blue veined hands clutching sheets to her chin
Fond memories, old boyfriends, gaily dance in her head
A Time traveler, scanning archives, sequestered within

My knock brings her back to this time, here and now
With a start she awakens, closes softly memory’s door
With a smile I approach, place a hand on her brow
Gently bringing her back to the present once more

Tucking a bib beneath her chin like an infant
Huge Breakfast tray pulled close to her breast
Eyes mockingly wide in jesting amazement
Solemnly promises to give it her best

I sit by her side, uncapping and helping
With the soft pureed breakfast I provided
A few birdlike bites, her resolve quickly melting
She’s really quite full now, she’s decided

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poem by David Whalen
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Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

quote by Mason Cooley
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

classic quote by Czeslaw Milosz
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Road of life

Time is passing
the circle is shrinking
road is gloomy
traveler is muddled

sounds like dirges
sight of casket
randomizes the mind
the soul seems incomplete
traveler feels hollow

standing up with a will
efforts ending in smoke
rides, insane
traveler is fedup

ball keeps rolling
gets bigger and bigger on its way

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poem by Syed Muhammad Furqan
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Time Travel

Time Travel
Walking slowly quickly threw the desert looking
wanting water finding sand
finding sand but wanting water looking quickly
travelling in time
time travelling
making way to way of time
making tao to tao of time
day is gone nite is ici
cold is here to stay love is cold
and gone away
time travelling
travelling in time
finding sand but wanting water quickly looking
wanting water finding sand
Walking slowly quickly threw the desert looking
For ewe love.
Time.

poem by Charles Hice
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The world is the traveler's inn.

Afghan proverbs
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To travel is to live.

quote by Hans Christian Andersen
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