Roads of Destiny(命运之路)
O. Henry
ROADS OF DESTINY
I go to seek on many roads What is to be.
True heart and strong, with love to light—
Will they not bear me in the fight
To order, shun or wield or mould My Destiny?
Unpublished Poems of David Mignot. The song was over. The words were David's; the air, one of the
countryside. The company about the inn table applauded heartily,
for the young poet paid for the wine. Only the notary, M. Papineau,
shook his head a little at the lines, for he was a man of books,
and he had not drunk with the rest.
David went out into the village street, where the night air
drove the wine vapour from his head. And then he remembered that he
and Yvonne had quarrelled that day, and that he had resolved to
leave his home that night to seek fame and honour in the great
world outside.
"When my…