44 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL-LIFE DAY. 



A moral lesson this might teach 

 Were I ordained and called to preach; 

 For men are prone to go it blind 

 Along the calf paths of the mind, 

 And work away from snn to sun 

 To do what other men have done. 

 They followed in the beaten track, 

 And out and in and forth and back, 

 And still their devious course pursue. 

 To keep the path that others do. 

 They keep the path a sacred groove. 

 Along which all their lives they move; 

 But how the wise old wood gods laugh, 

 Who saw the first primeval calf. 

 Ah, many things this tale might teach — 

 But I am not ordained to preach. 



-Anonymous. From The Pathfinder. 



