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.
~ "The Coming American" (July 4, 1894)

Sam Walter Foss (June 19, 1858 – February 26, 1911) was a librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.

Quotes

• 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.
  • "The Coming American" (July 4, 1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• We felt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne.
  • The volunteer Organist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
  • The Milking of the Cow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• 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 some climax, but he never reached the verge;
  Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.
  • The Inventor, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.
  • The Land of Git-Thare, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I say the very things that make the greatest Stir
  An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
  • Things that did n't occur, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Strew gladness on the paths of men—
  You will not pass this way again.
  • I shall not pass this Way again, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The title of this poem derives from a saying of William Penn.

• 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.
  • The Calf-Path, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Poems by Sam Walter Foss
• House by the Side of the Road