More from Sam Walter Foss

  1. We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.
  2. He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge; Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve; Always verging toward so…
  3. 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.
  4. There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
  5. I say the very things that make the greatest Stir An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
  6. Strew gladness on the paths of men- You will not pass this way again.
  7. 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; …

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