You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word "environment",
But spirit scorns it, and is free.
It masters time, it conquers space;
It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.
The human Will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless Soul,
Can hew a way to any goal,
Though walls of grantie intervene.
Be not impatient in delay,
But waits as one who understands;
When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.
From As A Man Thinketh
