Quiet Work
Matthew Arnold
1822 to 1888
Track 1
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Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting;
Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.
Man's fitful uproar mingling with his toil,
Yes, while on earth a thousand discords ring,
One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee,
Laborers that shall not fail, when man is gone.
Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows
Of toil unsever'd from tranquility!
Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil,
Still do thy sleepless ministers move on,
Though the loud world proclaim their enmity—
One lesson which in every wind is blown,
Far noisier schemes, accomplish'd in repose,
One lesson of two duties kept at one
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