“Soon or late

I knock, unbidden, once at every gate!

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... those who doubt or hesitate,

Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,

Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.

I answer not, and I return no more!“

One who saw life from a different point of view[[1]] replied by a poem on the same subject in which Opportunity says,—

“They do me wrong who say I come no more

When once I knock and fail to find you in;