Each life converges to some centre <br />Expressed or still; <br />Exists in every human nature <br />A goal, <br /> <br />Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be, <br />Too fair <br />For credibility's temerity <br />To dare. <br /> <br />Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven, <br />To reach <br />Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment <br />To touch, <br /> <br />Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance; <br />How high <br />Unto the saints' slow diligence <br />The sky! <br /> <br />Ungained, it may be, by a life's low venture, <br />But then, <br />Eternity enables the endeavoring <br />Again.<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/each-life-converges-to-some-centre/
