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1850–1919

OBSTACLES

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are no lions in the street; No lions in the way. Go seek the goal, thou slothful soul, Awake, awake, I say.

Thou dost but dream of obstacles; In God's great lexicon, That word illstarred, no page has marred; Press on, I say, press on.

Nothing can keep thee from thine own But thine own slothful mind. To one who knocks, each door unlocks; And he who seeks, shall find.

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