This is the poem which has saved my life - on coutless number of times,

This is the poem that has helped me survive when infinite amount of criticism is hurled at me by

1.my father,
2.my boss,
3.my friends and colleagues
4.the bus conductor when I tell him that I dont have change and he secretly wishes to screw me up and
5.so many other people who make me realise how foolish, stupid and incomprehensible I am.

Anyway - enough of praise...

O READER.. PLEASE BEHOLD !!!
NINE STANZAS OF ULTRI-INSPIRATION.....

A Psalm of Life
 
What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist
 
TELL me not, in mournful numbers,  
  Life is but an empty dream!—  
For the soul is dead that slumbers,  
  And things are not what they seem.  
  
Life is real! Life is earnest!      5
  And the grave is not its goal;  
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,  
  Was not spoken of the soul.   
  
HEY-- DOESNT THE GITA ECHOE THE SAME SENTIMENT ??


Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,  
  Is our destined end or way;   10
But to act, that each to-morrow  
  Find us farther than to-day.   
  
TRES SUPERBE !!! WHAT MATTERS IS NOT HOW GOOD  YOU WERE YESTERDAY OR TODAY BUT WHAT MATTERS IS YOU SHOULD BE ( & DO )  MORE GOOD TOMMORROW.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,  
  And our hearts, though stout and brave,  
Still, like muffled drums, are beating   15
  Funeral marches to the grave.  
  
In the world's broad field of battle,  
  In the bivouac of Life,  
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!  
  Be a hero in the strife!   20 
  
HERE ..THESE LINES ARE WORTHY OF INSTILLING SO MUCH STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN ANY TIMID AND INSIPID MAN ...THAT HE CAN DO WONDERS.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!  
  Let the dead Past bury its dead!  
Act,—act in the living Present!  
  Heart within, and God o'erhead!   
  
YES SIR !!!! I PROMISE YOU I WILL.I HAVE TO .THERE'S NO OTHER WAY THAN THIS.

Lives of great men all remind us   25
  We can make our lives sublime,  
And, departing, leave behind us  
  Footprints on the sands of time;   
  
ABSOLUMMENT ! READ THAT THOUSAND TIMES OVER ...

"Footprints on the sands of time ''......
THATS MY GOAL !!!


Footprints, that perhaps another,  
  Sailing o'er life's solemn main,   30
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,  
  Seeing, shall take heart again.  
  
Let us, then, be up and doing,  
  With a heart for any fate;  
Still achieving, still pursuing,   35
  Learn to labor and to wait.

AMEN!
NO WORDS!
SPELLBOUNDED!
O LORD - I SEEK YOU!

P.S _ Ultri means Ultimate and Terrific all rolled into one.