In Other Words/Success
Success
Success, oh word so ill-defined, Oh word that means the same to few!A myriad meanings all combinedAre rolled in you.
Is it success to have great wealth And all the pleasures it will bring?Or is it poverty and health,As many sing?
Is it success to own estates, Vast areas of mines and land,To have the pow’r to mock the fates;Supremely grand;
To have a house with all the things That luxury and taste desire;Treasures to which the richest kingsMay well aspire.
A beautiful and noble wife, To have, to hold and to caress—Is this—are these the things of lifeThat make Success?
Has he the great, the true success If Love and Fame and Wealth are his—Is this the way to Happiness?You bet it is.