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     Poem added 6/3/99. By James Allen:

     From the book As A Man Thinketh:

     James Allen was the author of nineteen books. Yet his personal life remains mysteriously unknown to this day. Born in Leicester, England in 1864, his literary career lasted only nine years until his death in 1912.

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                                                                                James Allen

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 granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay,

     But wait as one who understands;

     When spirit rises and commands,

The gods are ready to obey.

                                                                     James Allen

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