Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Singer Lamya's song "Empires (Bring Me Men)" takes most of its lyrics from The Coming American. He is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence Rhode Island. "
-- Sam Walter Foss from "The Coming American" July 4 1894
These words were inscribed on a granite wall at the United States Air Force Academy to inspire cadets and officers but they were removed in 2003 to harmonize in perception to the Air Force Academy's having become coeducational.

Sam Walter Foss (June 19 1858 - February 26 1911) was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American.