VAGRANT VERSE
OPPORTUNITY. “Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love end fortune on my footstep* wait. Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or lato I knock, unbidden, once at every gate. If feasting, rise; if sleeping, wake before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death. But those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe. Seek me in vain and ceaselessly implore; I answer not, and I return no more!” By an American Statesman.
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Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 4
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109VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 4
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