Something I found on the web:
When it comes to changing the world:
It's always too late,
always too soon,
the time's never right,
Now's the time.
I found it deep in the Wayback Machine, here. You’ll have to scan down the lefthand panel until you come to the phrase, "Now is the time"; it'll be in grey type. Click on that phrase; it's a hypelink. You'll see new text appear in the righthand panel. The text i quoted above is there. That’s from a tribute to Martin Luther King that Bill Berry put on the web in the mid-1990s in the early days of the web. If you’re at all curious about how that got there, this post tells the story: I was on the web before the New York Times was, me and Cuda Brown at Meanderings.
This post is about that little four-line ditty. It’s not attributed to anyone. I created that page so I assume that I wrote those lines. But I don’t remember having done so. It’s not a big thing. I have no trouble imagining that I’ve forgotten all about it; it was 30 years ago. That I’ve just forgotten is more plausible than that I’d gotten the lines from someone, somewhere, and just didn’t attribute them. That’s not my style.
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