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    Essential
    by Berton Braley

    You'll never get anywhere,
    Never do anything,
    Never be any one much;
    No honour or fame
    Will accrue to your name,
    You'll never have wealth in your clutch,
    Unless you go striving for,
    Doggedly driving for,
    Seeking the thing that you wish;
    How do some guys
    Manage to rise?
    Take it from me, it's
    Ambish!

    Although you have cleverness,
    Brains and Ability,
    Plenty of deftness and skill,
    The thing that you need
    If you hope to succeed
    Is Courage and Power of Will;
    Without pertinacity
    All your capacity
    Leaves you a failure, poor fish
    How do the Great
    Get to that State
    I've got the Answer--
    Ambish!

    You'll hear it called restlessness,
    Wanton irreverance,
    Discontent, lunacy, too,
    But it is the force
    That alters life's course
    And makes the world over anew;
    The one irrepressible,
    Strange and unguessable
    Cosmic, unwavering Wish!
    How did we climb
    Out of the Slime?
    You tell'em, Buddy--
    "Ambish!"

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