Show me the Way by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
b"Wilcox read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Show me the Way\\nby Ella Wheeler Wilcox\\n\\nShow me the way that leads to the true life.\\n I do not care what tempests may assail me,\\nI shall be given courage for the strife;\\n I know my strength will not desert or fail me;\\nI know that I shall conquer in the fray:\\n Show me the way.\\n\\nShow me the way up to a higher plane,\\n Where body shall be servant to the soul.\\nI do not care what tides of woe or pain\\n Across my life their angry waves may roll,\\nIf I but reach the end I seek, some day:\\n Show me the way.\\n\\nShow me the way, and let me bravely climb\\n Above vain grievings for unworthy treasures;\\nAbove all sorrow that finds balm in time;\\n Above small triumphs or belittling pleasures;\\nUp to those heights where these things seem child's-play:\\n Show me the way.\\n\\nShow me the way to that calm, perfect peace\\n Which springs from an inward consciousness of right;\\nTo where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease,\\n And self shall radiate with the spirit's light.\\nThough hard the journey and the strife, I pray,\\n Show me the way."