I say the very things that make the greatest Stir An' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur. - Sam Walter Foss

He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;
Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;
Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;
Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.

Strew gladness on the paths of men—
You will not pass this way again.

A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead;
They followed still his crooked way
And lost a hundred years a day;
For thus such reverence is lent
To well-established precedent.