From: The Dial, Vol. I, No. II (Oct. 1840)
Author:
Published: Weeks Jordan and Company 1840 Boston
GREATLY to Be Why for work art thou striving, What thou art thou wilt do, But how can I Be Not only above The sun does not say, He shines upon dust,
Is enough for me,
Is enough for thee.
Why seek’st thou for aught?
To the soul that is living
All things shall be brought.
And thy work will be true.
Without labor or love?
Life comes not to me
As to calm gods above.
May spirit be found,
The sunshine of love
Streams all around.
“I will not shine
Unless every ray
Fall on planets divine.”
Upon things mean and low,
His own inward thought
Maketh him glow.
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