[106] This passage has suggested the idea which finds beautiful expression in the closing stanzas of Whittier's "Barclay of Ury":
"Knowing this, that never yet
Share of truth was vainly set
In the world's wide fallow;
After hands shall sow the seed,
After hands from mill and mead
Reap the harvests yellow.
"Thus with somewhat of the seer
Must the moral pioneer
From the future borrow;