<h2><SPAN name="poem51"></SPAN>WILL</h2>
<p class="poetry">You will be what you will to be;<br/>
Let failure find its false content<br/>
In that poor word “environment,”<br/>
But spirit scorns it, and is free.</p>
<p class="poetry">It masters time, it conquers space,<br/>
It cowes that boastful trickster Chance,<br/>
And bids the tyrant Circumstance<br/>
Uncrown and fill a servant’s place.</p>
<p class="poetry">The human Will, that force unseen,<br/>
The offspring of a deathless Soul,<br/>
Can hew the way to any goal,<br/>
Though walls of granite intervene.</p>
<p class="poetry">Be not impatient in delay,<br/>
But wait as one who understands;<br/>
When spirit rises and commands,<br/>
The gods are ready to obey.</p>
<p class="poetry">The river seeking for the sea<br/>
Confronts the dam and precipice,<br/>
Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;<br/>
<i>You will be what you will to be</i>!</p>
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