Action of Recollection for Hope's Collection

Thoughts don't now surge,

Have I lost the inner urge

To perform noble thinking?

Why is my mind blinking?

Living isn't interesting,

And so I am lazily rusting,

Soon I must bring a change,

This new lethargy is strange.

I must pursue a worthy goal,

Into it put my heart and soul,

Then, there will be a purpose,

This act, a shrewd man does.

Goalless life is surely insipid,

This foolish act I wrongly did,

Now I have totally realized,

My vast energy is mobilized.

For a long time, I did sleep,

No ambition, I did keep,

I now with remorse regret,

Lost time, how can I get?

My min