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THE ROAD TO EVERYWHERE, by                    
First Line: The road I traveled yesterday
Last Line: At the end of the road to everywhere!
Subject(s): Future; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE road I traveled yesterday,
Its walls are straight and high,
And all along its trammelled way
Old loves and sorrows lie,
Fallen to dust and bones, and hid
Each with a mould-heaped coverlid.

Then why lament when earth is young,
And summer blossoming?
Many the songs that are not sung
For my mute lips to sing!
Many the dreams, like birds in air,
That skim o'er the Road to Everywhere!

The road I travel on today
Is fair and very wide,
Beside it blooms the hawthorne-spray
And the deep country-side;
The daisies shake above my feet,
And the light wind breathes pure and sweet.

But broader far the dim blue space,
The hills, the singing wind;
Toward them, my soul, oh, turn thy face,
And set thy feet to find,—
And on for the wild, high things to dare,
That throng o'er the Road to Everywhere!

The rimless Road to Everywhere,
Its ways are broad and free,
A starry track, a cloudy stair,
A cliff-path by the sea:
Road of the heart, beneath my feet,
That grows but as my footsteps beat!

Why should today and yesterday
With shadows drag me down,
When all the world is a royal way
That leads to a royal town,—
To the dream-tomorrow that waits me there
At the end of the Road to Everywhere!





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