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Cross-Roads

by John Oxenham

William Arthur Dunkerley

Oft, as he jogs along the Winding-Way,
Occasion comes for Every Man to say,--
"This Road?--or That?" and as he chooses them,
So shall his journey end in Night or Day.




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