How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart, <br />how many splendid plans and fine ideas <br />have foundered, lost their glorious craft and art <br />through hesitancy born of baseless fears? <br /> <br />We do not see the moment as divine, <br />thinking that those plans are somehow 'ours'; <br />forgetting, too, that Providence sublime <br />yields timeless good through time in human hours: <br /> <br />the task begun, this heavenly Providence <br />begins to move; bestows her love's support <br />with means, events, beyond coincidence; <br />assistance past all dreams of human thought - <br /> <br />be bold! and trust in Providence above: <br />she brings to earth God's magic; power; and love.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-goethe-on-boldness-for-poets-and-others/
