Fate



With Sodom apples fill thy harvest-bin;
        Barter heart-wealth for gold in Fashion's mart;
Traverse rough seas some distant port to win
    Without a chart.

Fray the fine cord of Love until it break;
    Launch thy pirogue before the storm abate;
Tease the prone, sleeping Peril till it wake;
    Then rail at Fate.



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From Joy, and Other Poems, by Danske Dandridge. Second Edition. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons - Knickerbocker Press, 1900.