Part Five, Chapter 6.
Blue Highways (1982)
“Strange thoughts come to the man alone;
'Tis then, if ever, he talks with God,
And views himself as a single clod
In the soil of life where the souls are grown.
'Tis then he questions the why and where,
The start and end of his years and days,
And what is blame and what is praise,
And what is ugly and what is fair.”
Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.145 - Alone, stanza 1.
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