"Life" - great growth mindset poem from 1903

I found this in a poem book belonging to my late father - Vic Ashe

The little red book is titled "Poems of Power" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1903)

Just goes to show growth mindset is not a new concept but something we need to learn - or are we born with a growth mindset? Something to ponder on...
anyway, the poem ..

Life

All in the dark we grope along,

And if we go amiss

We learn at least which path is

Wrong,

And there is gain in this.

We do not always win the race

By only running right;

We have to tread the mountain’s base

Before we reach it’s height.

The Christs alone no errors made;

So often had they trod

The paths that lead through the light and shade,

They had become as God.

As Krishna, Buddha, Christ again,

They passed along the way,

And left these might truths which men

But dimly grasp today.

But he who loves himself the last

And knows the use of pain,

Though strewn with errors all his past,

He surely shall attain.

Some souls there are that needs must taste

Of wrong, ere choosing right;

We should not call those years a waste

Which led us to the light.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox