Friday, March 8, 2013

‘Tis the Set of the Sail Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1996


‘Tis the Set of the Sail

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1996

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

And in between on the misty flats

The rest drift to and fro

But everyman there openth

A high way and a low

And every mind decidith

The way his souls shall go

One ship sails east,

And another west

By the self-same winds that blow

‘tis the set of the sails

And not the gales,

That tells the way we go.

Like the winds of the sea

Are the waves of time,

As we journey along through life,

‘Tis the set of the soul,

That determines the goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

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