Friday, March 8, 2013

tis the set of the sail


Tis the set of the sail
Ella wheeler Wilcox 1916
But and  every mind there openth, away, and away, 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 and fro.
But every man there openth, a high and a low, and every mind decideth, the way his soul 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 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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