Sam Walter Foss

“ But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by–
The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban:
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
I see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life,
The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife. ”

“ "He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road."—HOMER
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn ”