Opportunity

Grade 7 Poem

by William Shakespeare

Volume: 10 | Page: 278

Estimated reading time: 1 minute

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HERE is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. -From "Julius Cæsar."