What good have I wrought?
I laugh to have learned
That joy cannot come
Unless it be earned:
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For a happier lot
Than God giveth me
It never hath been
Nor ever shall be.
ROBERT BRIDGES
To E. G.
Were I to pause and hesitate
For something "picked," "alembicate,"
I might, by chance, no further get
Than mere parade of epithet;
So I'll just wish to You and Yours
Strength to achieve while strength endures;
And, when the power to do is done,
Remembered radiance of the sun!
AUSTIN DOBSON
New Year's Eve, 1919.