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Show DUTY. Straight and firm mark out the furrow, ' Drop therein the golden grain; Do thy task and rise tomorrow, Ready to begin again. One day like another passing. Acts and deeds of little show; Garnered seeds may be amassing. Whence the harvest field shall grow. Bravely, then, the ploughshare driving. Faint not, nor withdraw thy hand; Duties done by earnest striving Leave their traces o'er the land. Hard the labor, few the pleasures, Dull the task no others share: But each step that duty measures Leads us up a golden stair. |