What do you ask, O soul? What is the joy, or worth, or goal Which you with unremitting urge desire? "I ask for Life's fulfilling, For complete fruition of innate promise. I ask to reach my vision's outmost marge, That all I see potential may become actual. I ask that lethargy may never lay Its numbing hand on any vibrant force; And that the challenge of my best desire Shall ever be the token for the onset." |