Zeta Sigma Chapter at West Chester University

Building the Bridge 1924

• "An old man going a lone highway        
• Came in the evening, cold and gray,           
• To a chasm vast, both deep and wide.       
• The old man crossed in the twilight dim,   
• The swollen stream was as naught to him; 
• But he stopped when safe on the farther side
• And built a bridge to span the tide.
• "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,    
• "You are wasting your strength in labor here;
• Your journey will end with the closing day,
• You never again will pass this way.       
• You've crossed the chasm deep and wide; 
• Why build you this bridge at eventide?"
• The laborer lifted his old gray head,     
• "Good friend, in the path I have come," he Said,
• "There folleweth after me today
• A youth whose feet must pass this way.    
• This chasm which has been naught to me    
• To that young man may a pitfall be.           
• He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.  
• Good friend, I am building this bridge for him."

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