Life's Voyage

One ship drives East and another drives West

With the self-same winds that blow,

'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales

That tells them the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate,

As we voyage along through life,

'Tis the set of the soul that decides the goal

And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox