The Glory of Toil And Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Glory of Toil: And Other Poems The Glory of Toil Whether they delve in the buried coal, or plough the upland soil, Or man the seas, or measure the suns, hail to the men who toil! It was stress and strain, in wood and cave, while the primal ages ran, That broadened the brow, and built the brain, and made of a brute a man; And better the lot of the sunless mine, the fisher's perilous sea, Than the slothful ease of him who sleeps in the shade of his bread fruit tree; For sloth is death and stress is life in all God's realms that are, And the joy of the limitless heavens is the whirl of star with star! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.