“You are old, William Ewart,” the young man cried,
“And life must be fleeting away,
Yet you stick to your post, and refuse to take rest;
Now, what is your reason I pray?”
“I stick to my post,” William Ewart replied,
“Because a great work I’ve begun,
And mean not to rest, though the peers do their worst,
Until that great work I have done.”
Truth, 1884.