And shall perfect the work I but began.
What matter, therefore, if my word to-day
Falls on unwilling ears, finds few to praise?
Since some mere child, in his incipient days,
That word may win to walk a prophet’s way?
And he, of greater gift, more favored state,
Shall speak to thousands where I speak to one:
Shall do the work that I would fain have done;
Helped to that fortune at my lonely gate.
Perchance some Saul of Tarsus, hating me,