VAGRANT VERSE
QUIET WORK One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee. One lesson which in every wind is blown. One lesson of two duties kept as one Though the loud world proclaim their eamity— Of toil unsever’d from tranquillity! Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplish’d in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry! Yes, wliile on earth a thousand discorda ring, Man’s fitful uproar mingling with his toil. Still do thy sleepless ministers move on. Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting — —Matthew Arnold.
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Southland Times, Issue 18818, 11 May 1920, Page 4
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91VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 18818, 11 May 1920, Page 4
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