DRUDGERY
Dull drudgery, "gray angel of success;"There’s always a bloom on the world if one looks.—Abby M. Roach.
Enduring purpose, waiting long and long,
Headache or heartache, blent with sigh or song,
Forever delving mid the strife and stress:
Within the bleak confines of your duress
Are laid the firm foundations, deep and strong,
Whereon men build the right against the wrong,—
The toil-wrought monuments that lift and bless.
The coral reefs; the bee’s o’erflowing cells;The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.—George Eliot.
The Pyramids; all things that shall endure;
The books on books wherein all wisdom dwells,
Are wrought with plodding patience, slow and sure.
Yours the time-tempered fashioning that spells
Of chaos, order, perfect and secure.
GEORGE ELIOT