Attainment

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



Use all your hidden forces.

Do not miss the purpose of this life,
and do not wait for circumstance
to mold or change your fate.
In your own self lies destiny.

Let this vast truth cast out all fear,
all prejudice, all hesitation.
Know that you are great --
great with divinity.

Do dominate environment, and enter into bliss.
Live largely, and hate nothing.

Hold no aim that does not chord
with universal good.

Hear what the voices of the silence say.
All joys are yours if you put forth your claim.

Once you let the spiritual laws be understood,
material things must answer and obey.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme X XXAB XXAB XX XC DX CD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 574
Words 108
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2

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