Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 – February 26, 1911) was an American librarian and poet whose best-known works included "The Coming American" and "The House by the Side of the Road".[1][2][3] (wikipedia)
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.
They are good, they are bad,They are weak, they are strong,They are wise, they are foolish---so am I.
For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mindTo do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do.
The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread
