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You may think, passer-by, that Fate / Is a pit-fall outside of yourself, / Around which you may walk by the use of foresight / And wisdom.
Thus you believe, viewing the lives of other men, / As one who in God-like fashion bends over an anthill, / Seeing how their difficulties could be avoided.
But pass on into life:
In time you shall see Fate approach you / In the shape of your own image in the mirror;
Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth, / And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest, / And you shall know that guest, / And read the authentic message of his eyes.