Across the places deep and dim, <br />And places brown and bare, <br />It reaches to the planet s rim <br />The Road to Anywhere. <br /> <br />Now east is east, and west is west, <br />But north lies in between, <br />And he is blest whose feet have prest <br />The road that s cool and green. <br /> <br />The road of roads for them that dare <br />The lightest whim obey, <br />To follow where the moose or bear <br />Has brushed his headlong way. <br /> <br />The secrets that these tangles house <br />Are step by step revealed, <br />While to the sun the grass and boughs <br />A store of odors yield. <br /> <br />More sweet these odors in the sun <br />Than swim in chemist's jars; <br />And when the fragrant day is done, <br />Night and a shoal of stars. <br /> <br />Oh, east is east, and west is west, <br />But north lies full and fair; <br />And blest is he who follows free <br />The Road to Anywhere. <br /> <br />B. L. T.<br /><br />Bert Leston Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-to-anywhere/
