Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Richard Chenevix Trench (18071886)A genial moment oft has given
A GENIAL moment oft has given | |
What years of toil and pain, | |
Of long industrious toil, have striven | |
To win, and all in vain. | |
Yet count not, when thine end is won, | 5 |
That labour merely lost; | |
Nor say it had been wiser done | |
To spare the painful cost. | |
When heaped upon the altar lie | |
All things to feed the fire— | 10 |
One spark alighting from on high, | |
The flames at once aspire; | |
But those sweet gums and fragrant woods, | |
Its rich materials rare, | |
By tedious quest o’er lands and floods | 15 |
Had first been gathered there. | |