TOIL

New Zealand Tablet, 17 September 1908, Page 37

TOIL

To work for those we love, with hand an,d brain, To spend ourselves, unstinting, day by day, • And "see the years slip, one by one,' away', . While we no store amass nor guerdon~gain ; -'- V To count the night hours pass. in restless pain. And watch impatient for the, sun's first ray — All this till youth be passed and we grown grey, Yet' is not toil if only Love remain. While eye meets eye, and gentle hands caress, iAnd tender word lifts off the weight- of care. The heaviest load will not too hardly press If loving heart will still the burden share. But when Love got-.s— ah ■ then we toil indeed, And, toiling, find our iabor all our meed.