Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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And I am the path that leads into green young Mays.
Oh, sweet the life of a Road! I am a Road; and I speed away from the slums, Away from desolate places, Away from unused spaces; Wherever I go, there order from chaos comes. Oh, brave the life of a Road! I am a Road; and I would make the whole world one. I would give hope to duty, And cover the earth with beauty. Do you not see, O men! how all this might be done? So vast the power of the Road! THE FAITH WE NEED Too tall our structures, and too swift our pace; Not so we mount, not so we gain the race. Too loud the voice of commerce in the land; Not so truth speaks, not so we understand. Too vast our conquests, and too large our gains; Not so comes peace, not so the soul attains. But the need of the world is a faith that will live anywhere; In the still dark depths of the woods, or out in the sun's full glare. |
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