Poem: “Concentration” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Concentration

The age is too diffusive. Time and Force
   Are frittered out and bring no satisfaction.
   The way seems lost to straight determined action.
   Like shooting stars that zig-zag from their course
   We wander from our orbit’s pathway; spoil
The rôle we’re fitted for, to fail in twenty.
Bring empty measures, that were shaped for plenty,
   At last as guerdon for a life of toil.
There’s lack of greatness in this generation
   Because no more man centres on one thought.
   We know this truth, and yet we heed it not:
The secret of success is Concentration.

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