AMBITION
Ambition is a man-of-war,
And constant will her battery,
Hard pressing down upon the foe
Upon life’s wide and rolling sea.
No sturdy coils nor clanking chains
Can ever bind her to the shore;
Through storm and tempest, wind and wave,
She plows the waters o’er.
There is no craft she’ll not engage,
Nor cares how broad her bulk or mast,
For she will buckle to her side
And in the struggle win at last.