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Seven Poems Celebrating Free Will
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Seven Poems Celebrating Free Will

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Feb 21, 2019
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’Tis the Set of the Sail

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But to every mind there openeth,

A way, and way, and away,

A high soul climbs the highway,

And the low soul gropes the low,

And in between on the misty flats,

The rest drift to and fro.

But to every man there openeth,

A high way and a low,

And every mind decideth,

The way his soul shall go.

One ship sails East,

And anothe…

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