26 Scope and Principles. 



Who wake by turns earth's love and fear, 

 Are one the same. 



*' As idly as in that old day 



Thou mournest, did thy sires repine. 

 So, in his time, thy son, grown gray, 

 Shall sigh for thine. 



" Yet not the less for them or thou 

 The eternal step of Progress beats 

 To that great anthem, calm and slow, 

 Which God repeats ! 



" Take heart ! the waster builds again 

 A charmed life old Goodness hath ; 

 The tares may perish but the grain 

 Is not for death. 



" God works in all things ; all obey 



His first propulsion from the night ; 

 Ho, wake and watcli ! the world is gray 

 With morning light !" * 



* Whittier, " The Reformer.' 



