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A CAUTION AND PROMISE. |
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A CAUTION AND PROMISE.
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we
shall reap if we faint not.”
—Galatians, vi. 9.
He who would endless glory reap,
Must here the word of patience keep;
That word which gives the eye to see
The glorious harvest yet to be.
Must here the word of patience keep;
That word which gives the eye to see
The glorious harvest yet to be.
The husbandman, his seed who sows,
Must wait with patience while it grows;
And he who would the oak uprear,
Must cherish hope from year to year.
Must wait with patience while it grows;
And he who would the oak uprear,
Must cherish hope from year to year.
The architect who lays the while
The basement of a lofty pile,
By slow, laborious toil alone
Can reach the turret's topmost stone.
The basement of a lofty pile,
By slow, laborious toil alone
Can reach the turret's topmost stone.
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Nor must the Christian hope too soon,
Faith's more sublime, immortal boon;
None win by slight or brief emprize
The rich reversion of the skies.
Faith's more sublime, immortal boon;
None win by slight or brief emprize
The rich reversion of the skies.
Meek pilgrim Zion-ward! if thou
Hast put thy hand unto the plough,
O look not back, nor droop dismay'd,
At thought of recompense delay'd.
Hast put thy hand unto the plough,
O look not back, nor droop dismay'd,
At thought of recompense delay'd.
Shall he, who more than worlds is wooing,
Faint and grow weary in well-doing,
Who, in his Lord's appointed time,
Through faith may gain a meed sublime?
Faint and grow weary in well-doing,
Who, in his Lord's appointed time,
Through faith may gain a meed sublime?
Doubt not that thou, in season due,
Shalt own his gracious promise true;
And thou shalt share their glorious lot
Whom doing well hath wearied not.
Shalt own his gracious promise true;
And thou shalt share their glorious lot
Whom doing well hath wearied not.
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