Friday, March 8, 2013

a poem

'tis the set of sails'
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1916
but to every mind there openeth,
a way ,and a way, and away
a high soul climbs the highway,
and the low soul gropes the low,
the rest drift to and fro

But to every man there openeth,
a highway and a low,
and every mind decideeth,
the way his shall go.


one ship sails east,
and another west,
by the  self-same winds that blow,
 'tis the set of the sail,
and not the gails,
and the not calm or the strife

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