Life! Austere1 arbiter2 of each man's fate,
By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast3 laws
Are as decrees immutable4; O pause
Your even forward march! Not yet too late
Teach me the needed lesson, when to wait
Inactive as a ship when no wind draws
To stretch the loosened cordage. One implores
Thy clemency5, whose wilfulness6 innate
Has gone uncurbed and roughshod while the years
Have lengthened7 into decades; now distressed
He knows no rule by which to move or stay,
And teased with restlessness and desperate fears
He dares not watch in silence thy wise way
Bringing about results none could have guessed.
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