Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
The Way
By William Steele Shurtleff (18301896)[Born in Newbury Springs, Vt., 1830. Died in Longmeadow, Mass., 1896.]
F
Although she strays
From beaten paths of men,
To untrod ways,
Her leading follow straight,
And bide thy fate!
Thy passing greet,
Or find’st thou flower or thorn
Beneath thy feet,
Fare on! nor fear thy fate
At Heaven’s gate.