COPYRIGHT, WALTER SCOTT SHINN
ROOSEVELT AS A GRANDFATHER
XV
From White House to Jungle
“Oh, our manhood’s prime vigor! No spirit feels waste,
Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced.
Oh, the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock;
The strong rending of boughs from the fir-trees; the cool, silver shock
Of the plunge in a pool’s living water; the hunt of the bear,
And the sultriness showing the lion is crouched in his lair.
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How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”