INSPIRING THOUGHTS
IN THE ROUGH
The marble was pure and white,
Though only a block at best; But the artist with inward sight Looked farther than all the i est, And saw in the hard rough stone The loveliest statue the sun shone on
So he set to work with care And chiselled a form of grace— A figure divinely fair, With a tender, beautiful face, But the blows were hard and fast That brought from the marble that work at last.
So I think that human lives Must bear God’s chisel keen, If the spirit yearns and strives For the better life unseen \ For men are only blocks at best Till the chiselling brings out all the rest.
-X- -X- -x- * I’ll take the showers as they fall, I will not vex my bosom; Enough if at the end of all A little garden blossom.
Tennyson
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 1
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147INSPIRING THOUGHTS Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1931, Page 1
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