Duty by Anonymous

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 4, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 26.

Duty

By Anonymous

I sought to do some mighty act of good, That I might prove how well my soul had striven. I waited, while days and hours passed by, Yet bore no incense of my deed to heaven. Sad, without hope, I watched the falling rain; One drop alone could not refresh the tree; But drop on drop, till from its deepest root The giant oak drank life and liberty. Refreshed, like nature, I arose to try And do the duty which should nearest lie; And ere I knew my work was half begun, The noble deed I sought in vain was done. —Anonymous.