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The town Of Hay is far a...)
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The town Of Hay is far away, The town of Hay is far Between its hills of green and gray Its winding meadows are. Within the quiet town of Hay Is many a quiet glen, And there by many a shaded way Are homes of quiet men And there are many hearts alway That turn with longing, night and Back to the town of Hay.
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Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet, whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.
Background
Sam Walter Foss was born on June 19, 1858, at Candia, New Hampshire, the son of Dyer Foss and Polly Hardy. He was of Huguenot origin and through his father a descendant of Stephen Bachiler, the ancestor of Webster, Fessenden, Allison, Whittier, and other well-known men.
His father was a farmer, and highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen. His mother died when he was four years old.
Education
As a boy, Foss worked on the farm and went to school in winter. When he was fourteen his father, having married again, moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Foss attended the Portsmouth High School, in which he received literary encouragement, and at graduation, in 1877 he was chosen class poet. The following year he spent at the Tilton Seminary.
Foss then entered Brown University and was graduated in 1882. As a student he was poor in purse, and, living at a distance from the college, took little part in student activities. In his vacations, he worked on his father’s farm. He contributed poems to the Brunonian, the college literary fortnightly, of which he became an editor, and was class odist and poet.
Career
During the year after graduation Foss was a book agent in company with his friend William E. Smythe. The two bought the Lynn, Massachusetts, Union in 1883, changing its name in the same year to the Saturday Union, Foss became proprietor and sole editor in 1884. Having arranged for the supply of a humorous column, he found himself one week without it, and was forced to write the column himself. The compliments on his humor which he received encouraged him to continue to write the column, and in time his work attracted the notice of Wolcott Balestier, the editor of TidBits, who sought his contributions. Soon Foss made connections with Puck, Judge, the Sun, and other New York publications, as well as with the Christian Endeavor World and the Youth’s Companion.
In 1887 Foss went to Boston to become editor of the Yankee Blade and an editorial writer for the Boston Globe. He held both positions for seven years. During this period he wrote a poem a week for his own paper, and in 1893 and 1894 a poem a day for a syndicate.
In 1898 Foss became librarian of the Somerville Public Library, and this position he held during the rest of his life. Though he came untrained into librarianship, he was soon regarded as a force in public library activity, and in 1904 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Library Club. His latest literary activity was writing the "Library Alcove" for the Christian Science Monitor (October 6, 1909 - March 1, 1911).
His poetry was collected and published under the titles Back Country Poems (1892); Whiffs from Wild Meadows (1895); Dreams in Homespun (1897); Songs of War and Peace (1899); The Song of the Library Staff (1906); and Songs of the Average Man (1907). His class poem, The Hesperian, was printed in the Brunonian for June 21, 1882.
To his last volume were added in 1911 eight poems, closing with his noble swan-song, The Trumpets, written at Christmas time when he was contemplating going to the hospital. Sam W. Foss died on February 26, 1911, in Boston, Massachusetts.