And lives for me to plead.
‘Where hast thou gleaned to-day?’ (Ruth ii. 19).
At evening to myself I say,
My soul, where hast thou gleaned to-day,
Thy labours how bestowed?
What hast thou rightly said or done?
What grace attained or knowledge won,
In following after God?
‘Oh that I knew where I might find Him’ (Job xxxiii. 3).
Where but on yonder tree?