Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | Example | | John Keble (1792–1866) |
| | | WE scatter seeds with careless hand, | |
| And dream we ne’er shall see them more; | |
| But for a thousand years | |
| Their fruit appears, | |
| In weeds that mar the land, | 5 |
| Or healthful store. | |
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| The deeds we do, the words we say,— | |
| Into still air they seem to fleet, | |
| We count them ever past; | |
| But they shall last,— | 10 |
| In the dread judgment they | |
| And we shall meet. | |
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| I charge thee by the years gone by, | |
| For the love’s sake of brethren dear, | |
| Keep thou the one true way, | 15 |
| In work and play, | |
| Lest in that world their cry | |
| Of woe thou hear. | | | | |
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