Popular quotes: The meaning an history behind "Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit."
"Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit."
– David McCord
David McCord (December 15, 1897-April 13, 1997) was a talented essayist; poet;
anthologist; watercolorist; trout fisherman; and the executive director of the
Harvard Fund Council, a fund-raising arm of the university; an editor of the
Harvard Alumni Bulletin; and recipient of at least 14 honorary degrees.
During his life he wrote or edited more than 40 books of poetry and prose
including One at a Time,On Occasion, What Cheer and
Every Time I Climb a Tree.
He is best remembered for his poems for children of which he once wrote (in The
New York Times, 1964): "Whatever may be said about this small but graceful art,
three things should be remembered: good poems for children are never trivial;
they are never written without the characteristic chills and fever of a
dedicated man at work; they must never bear the stigma of I am adult, you are a
child.'
Mr McCord was born in New York City and lived in Princeton, NJ until the age of
12 when his family moved to Oregon. He graduated from Harvard with a
bachelor of arts in 1921 and received a master's in chemistry in 1922.
This Is My Rock
(from Every Time I Climb a Tree)
This is my rock,
And here I run
To steal the secret of the sun;
This is my rock,
And here come I
Before the night has swept the sky;
"This is my rock,
This is the place
I meet the evening face to face.
EVERY TIME I CLIMB A TREE
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants
All over me
And every time I climb a tree
Where have you been?
They say to me
But don't they know that I am free
Every time I climb a tree?
I like it best
To spot a nest
That has an egg
Or maybe three
And then I skin
The other knee
But every time I climb a tree
I see a lot of things to see
Swallows, rooftops and TV
And all the fields and farms there be
Every time I climb a tree
Thought climbing may be good for ants
It isn't awfully good for pants
But still it's pretty good for me
Every time I climb a tree
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