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    The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay
    The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay
    The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay
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    The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay

    By Roderick Grant

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    In The Final Hike Rod Grant draws on his long and varied experience to explore nature, life and death and the fate of man in his lyrical and moving style. In his poem The Final Hike from which the title of the book is taken, he describes the last of his annual April 5 pilgrimages to the Dungeness Spit.



    In the Soul at Bay he draws on his early work to describe the anguish of a young man facing the challenges of life and his own frailties in powerful and insightful verse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9781456718794
    The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay
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    Roderick Grant

    Roderick Grant was born in Forres, Morayshire, in 1941, where he attended the local academy. He has worked as a forestry worker, a journalist, a newspaper editor, a television presenter, a radio broadcaster, a bookshop manager and a postman. He has been published in both Britain and the USA.

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      The Final Hike and the Soul at Bay - Roderick Grant

      The Final Hike

      and

      The Soul at Bay

      Roderick Grant

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      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2011 Roderick Grant. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 1/28/2011

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-1878-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4567-1879-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011900288

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

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      To my talented siblings

      Ken, Bruce, and Marian

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      Table of Contents

      A Wish For Tomorrow

      New Day

      Moon Phase

      Mood

      Bird Song

      Pathway

      The Arrow

      Spring Bloom

      Early Dawn

      Killing Time

      Notice To Man

      Interlude

      Summer Squall

      The Passed Instant

      The Mask

      Crowding

      Light Wind

      What I Would Miss

      Wandering Thoughts

      Pleides

      The Ashes Of Today

      Size

      Meaning

      Sunset

      Survival

      Motion

      The Well

      A Summer Thought

      Electric Blackout

      New Garden

      The Odds

      Job Revisited

      Limitations

      Physical Exam

      April 5 The Final Hike

      The Soul at Bay

      I

      Ii

      Iii

      Iv

      V

      Vi

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      Ix

      X

      Xi

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      Xiv

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      A Wish For Tomorrow

      Farewell today

      Hello tomorrow

      I hope you bring a day

      When life, again,

      Seems rare and beautiful

      Too many now

      Are hidden in the shadows

      Of uneasiness and

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