If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere, From being No one up to bemg Someone, Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose mercy to you rather than to others Won't bear too critical examination Stay unassuming. If for lack of license To wear the uniform of who you are, You should be tempted to make up for it In a subordinating look or tone Beware of coming too much to the surface, And using for apparel what was meant To be the curtain of the mmost soul. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GOLDEN TARGE by WILLIAM DUNBAR A SONG FROM THE COPTIC by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE BROTHERS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE TRAGEDY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH SEASONS AND TIMES by WILLIAM BARNES BOOKS ET VERITAS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |