After witnessing the farewell ceremonies for our 41st President, I write in Respect of President George H. W. Bush,  who lived such a fulfilled life.

His life reminded me of a poem that speaks to a well-lived, respectable and honorable man, a man who loved his God, his family. his friends and his country, who, though he walked with kings, he showed respect to all.

The end of William Cullen Bryant’s poem, “Thanatopsis” says,
“. . . So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves to that mysterious realm,
Where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,
scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and sooth by an Unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him,
And lies down to pleasant dreams.”

You have inspired many by your walk in life. Your walk maybe the only bible some may read.
Rest now, President G. H. W. Bush. Sweet dreams. CAVU