Help please to find the poem by anon that beigins thank god for fools for men who care to dream beyond the lean horizon of their present day?

Answer 1

This poem is not anonymous. It was written by Ted Olsen (or Olson) sometime prior to 1922. It is titled "Thank God For Fools", and is written in five 4-line verses. Thank God for fools -- for men who dare to dream beyond the lean horizon of their days; Men not too timid to pursue the gleam to unguessed lands of wonder and amaze. Thank God for fools! The trails that ring the world are dark with blood and sweat where they have passed. Theirs are the flags on every crag unfurled; theirs -- ashes and oblivion at last. Blundering, fumbling up the frowning years; stumbling through deeps too foul for moon or star; hearing -- and heeding not -- the scoffs, the jeers; falling at last while yet the goal was far. Poor-ragamuffin heroes, doomed to fail, and leave their bones beneath ironic skies. They never knew their wandering blazed the trail. Their blunders taught their wisdom to the wise! Thank God for fools -- absurd and blind and great. We rear our temples on the stones they laid. Ours is the prize their souls might not wait; Theirs -- the high requiem of the unafraid! This poem appeared in Mixer and Server, a book published in 1922 by affiliates of the American Federation of Labor; it was credited as having previously appeared in Forbes Magazine. Mixer and Server is one of the thousands of books digitized by Google; it is available courtesy of The State Historical Society of Wisconsin.