The Bridge Builder (Boy Scout Ending)

This video was created to use as a Scoutmaster's Minute for a Wood Badge Course in the Utah National Parks Council.
The intent is to inspire Scout leaders to understand their role in helping youth find their way in a troubled world and to build a strong moral compass.
This presentation is available for use by any Scout organization for training and inspirational purposes. We hope it makes a difference.
We appreciate the generosity of those who made this video possible:
The voice talents of Cindi Ellis (SPL) and Matt Bushman (Scribe)
The instrumental talents of:
Heather Abbott - violin
Keirsten Bushman - flute
Jack Mason (ASM Logistics) - guitar
And many thanks to Lisa Bradshaw for composing this beautiful arrangement.
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The Bridge Builder
by Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;
“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth 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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