Here’s a wonderful extract from this author’s poem which we love and wish to share with you…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthy, free, the world before me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The long brown path leading wherever I choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strong and content, I travel the open road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You road I enter upon and look around! I believe you are not all that is here;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe that much unseen is also here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I inhale great draughts of space;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whoever you are, come travel with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traveling with me, you find what never tires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To know the universe itself as a road \u2014as many roads\u2014vast roads for traveling souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Soul travels;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The body does not travel as much as the soul;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forever alive, forever forward,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The road is before us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is safe\u2014I have tried it\u2014my own feet have tried it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let the money remain unearn’d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I give you my hand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I give you my love, more precious than money,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I give you myself, before preaching or law;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a wonderful extract from this author’s poem which we love and wish to share with you… AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path leading wherever I choose. Strong and content, I travel the open road. You road I enter upon and look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-song-of-the-open-road","tag-walt-whitman"],"yoast_head":"\n