Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Keble (1792–1866)Sowing and Reaping
| 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. | |
| 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. | |