Or tumble helpless, since over we must,
And the end of all is the "dust to dust?"
Well,—take it so; yet the footpath way
Doth its line through every thoroughfare
lay;
The tramp of the legion may seem to efface,
But the single treading hath left its trace.
You may rush by steam with a seven-league
stride,
Yet the footpath way's in the railroad