His hundred’s soon hit:
This high man, aiming at a million.
Misses a unit.
That, has the world here—should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find Him.
R. Browning (A Grammarian’s Funeral).
See The Inn Album (IV) where Browning makes his heroine say:
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,