O, Ax of Traffic, buzzing Saws of Trade,

Dost think for thee alone the Earth was made?

For thee, to garner clean her fields of corn,

With barren hills to greet the babe unborn;

For thee, to glutton in her sweet-stored vine!

And leave no grape on fainting Future’s vine?

JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE.


Fortunate is the man who has found his lifework, and—his Jonah.