EVERY-DAY WORK

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 7

EVERY-DAY WORK

Great deed 5 ? aie trumpeted, loud bclK aie ning, And men turn round to see : The high peaks echo to the pa i ans sung O'ei some <jieat vietoiy. And\et £H\it deeds <ue few. The mightiest men Find oppoi tnnities hut now and then. Shall one '-it idle thiough long day? of pence. Waiting £01 walls to scale? Oi lie in port until soup Golden Fleece I Lnros him to l',\cr tiie «• .1 J«» ? Tiieie's woikmouuh, wh\ idly, then.dt lay? lii-- w oik (. cmnt-, must who l.ibois e\ ci \ A toTK-nt «wrcps down the mountain^ biow, With fo-nn and fli^h and ioj'T. Anon it» -tienirth is sp-Mir. wheu-is it now ? lt^ "no slinit da} is oVi. But th", clear '■t tea in th.it through the meadow flows All the Kmij; siutimei on its minion Bettet the uly flo", : the toiienfs' d i«h Hoc 1 lea\es it^ r"iit ti.uk dry. Tiie liulit we love is not the litjUtniiiL, n. t -ii, Fiom out .1 moonlight sky, But the sweet whose unfulinc; i,t\ Fiom its calm throne of blue lights e\ eiy day. The sweetest lives aic tho>,p to duty wed. Who^e deeds both and small, Are close-knit stiands of an unluokcn thread, Where love ennobles all. The world in-n sound :io trumpets, ling no bells ;" Tließook of Life thcstiiningrecoid tells.