9 Famous Quotes by Sam Walter Foss
6/19/1858 - 2/26/1911
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About Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
America
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: The Coming American
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"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came o'er the waters far,
"Just drop your bucket where you are."
And then they dipped and drank their fill
Of water fresh from mead and hill;
And then they knew they sailed upon
The broad mouth of the Amazon.
Opportunity
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: Opportunity
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Seek not for fresher founts afar,
Just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship right onward leaps,
Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.
Parch not your life with dry despair;
The stream of hope flow everywhere--
So under every sky and star,
Just drop your bucket where you are.
Opportunity
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: Opportunity
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A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his crooked way
And lost a hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well established precedent.
Boston
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: The Calf-Path
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One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.
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And men two centuries and a half
Trod in the footsteps of that calf.
Boston
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: The Calf-Path
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Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish,--so am I;
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man.
Hospitality
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: House by the Side of the Road
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There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran,--
But let me live by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man.
Hospitality
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: House by the Side of the Road
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W'en you see a man in woe,
Walk right up and say "hullo."
Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do,"
"How's the world a-usin' you?"
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W'en you travel through the strange
Country t'other side the range,
Then the souls you've cheered will know
Who you be, an' say "hullo."
Humanity
Quotes, by Sam Walter Foss , Source: Hullo
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