Songs of A Wayfarer By William Davies |
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 | Songs of A Wayfarer |  |
CCXXII. COUNSEL.
Dear friends believe me earnest now
I bid you all my counsel prove,
Who God all reverent worship owe,
And men meet help and love.
I bid you all my counsel prove,
Who God all reverent worship owe,
And men meet help and love.
No servitor of hound or chase,
Scorn thou the angle and the gun;
For, bird and beast, each to his place,
God made them every one.
Scorn thou the angle and the gun;
For, bird and beast, each to his place,
God made them every one.
But since for thee the brute must bleed,
And life which grows must life destroy,
So take it at thy natural need:
Thy duty; not thy joy.
And life which grows must life destroy,
So take it at thy natural need:
Thy duty; not thy joy.
Box, wrestle, ride the emulous race,
Row, cricket, use thy rifle well:
Thy British thews with ardour brace:
In everything excel.
Row, cricket, use thy rifle well:
Thy British thews with ardour brace:
In everything excel.
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Look not for honour nor estate:
Be to have lived and wrought thy gain.
On thy own self depend, nor wait
For help from gods or men.
Be to have lived and wrought thy gain.
On thy own self depend, nor wait
For help from gods or men.
Be firm: stand like the eternal rock
Which takes the buffet of the storm;
But stems the winds and waves that shock
Its front, and feels no harm.
Which takes the buffet of the storm;
But stems the winds and waves that shock
Its front, and feels no harm.
Through fire and tempest, praise and blame
Keep thou thy life-path arrow-straight:
On fearsome sluggishness and shame
Ten thousand devils wait.
Keep thou thy life-path arrow-straight:
On fearsome sluggishness and shame
Ten thousand devils wait.
Be tolerant. God's large charities
Flow daily round the world: He gives
Unquestioning: all mankind in his
Vast Love and Power lives.
Flow daily round the world: He gives
Unquestioning: all mankind in his
Vast Love and Power lives.
No creature in this world so base
Receives no ray from the Divine:
Keep thou content thy proper place;
Nor murmur, nor repine.
Receives no ray from the Divine:
Keep thou content thy proper place;
Nor murmur, nor repine.
See uncondemned the rebel hate
God's law; and pity thou the doer;
Yet hold that law inviolate,
And live thou high and pure.
God's law; and pity thou the doer;
Yet hold that law inviolate,
And live thou high and pure.
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Let all thy earnest soul be set
To smooth the wrinkles of this world.
O'er haunts of sin and sorrow let
God's banner float unfurled.
To smooth the wrinkles of this world.
O'er haunts of sin and sorrow let
God's banner float unfurled.
Fix high thy standard: let it be
With Christ, great Monarch of our race:
Thy friends his friends; thy aim to see
His glory face to face.
With Christ, great Monarch of our race:
Thy friends his friends; thy aim to see
His glory face to face.
Shun thou the pasture of the beast:
Great Nature, who can never cloy,
Shall clasp thee to her wholesome breast
And nourish thee with Joy;
Great Nature, who can never cloy,
Shall clasp thee to her wholesome breast
And nourish thee with Joy;
Distil her sweetest influences
To purify thy mortal blood;
Teach thee her secret mysteries;
Feed thee on holy food:
To purify thy mortal blood;
Teach thee her secret mysteries;
Feed thee on holy food:
And thou shalt see, at dawn and set
Of radiant suns, bright angels move;
Shalt read in every violet
God's message of large Love.
Of radiant suns, bright angels move;
Shalt read in every violet
God's message of large Love.
Have thou no title, nor a name,
Thy monument, pure deeds: not sloth:
So God shall give thee better fame,
And crown thee lord of Truth.
Thy monument, pure deeds: not sloth:
So God shall give thee better fame,
And crown thee lord of Truth.
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Thus blest and blessing go thy way,
Sowing in joyful hope good seed;
That men in aftertimes may say:
There lived a Man indeed.
Sowing in joyful hope good seed;
That men in aftertimes may say:
There lived a Man indeed.
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