DILIGENCE

Work for the night is coming.
Work through the morning hours
Work while the daylight lowers
Work mid springing flowers
Work while the day grows brighter
Work through the glowing sun.
Work for the night is coming
when man's work is done.

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Let me but do my work from day to day
In field or forest at the desk or loom,
in roaring market place or tranquil room.
Let me but find it in my heart to say
when evil pleasures beckon me away
"This is my work my blessing not my doom.
Of all who do it I am the one
by whom this work can best be done in the right way