“God made a beauteous garden with lovely flowers strewn,

But one straight, narrow pathway that was not overgrown.

And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live,

And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give.

Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend,

But keep the pathway open, Your home is at the end." 

  

- Robert Frost 1890's