BLESSING IN DOING by Aubrey de Vere

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 35.

BLESSING IN DOING.

By Aubrey de Vere

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. O hours of indolence and discontent, Not now to be redeemed! ye sting not less Because I know this span of life was lent For lofty duties, not for selfishness. Not to be whiled away in aimless dreams, But to improve ourselves, and serve mankind, Life and its choicest faculties were given. Man should be ever better than he seems; And shape his acts, and discipline his mind, To walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. —Aubrey de Vere.