...still seek definite uses, though this use b< to lend imagination or poetic depth to dailj labour :— " But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing...still must plead, And the rough ore must find its honours in its use. " So haply these my simple lays Of homely toil may serve to show The orchard-bloom...

...own excuse ; but the weed must show a healing virtue, and the ore a use, if they would be honored. " So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tassel'd maize That skirt and gladden duty's way, The unsung beauty hid life's common things below...

...Labour," in the following stanzas: "Art's perfect forms no moral need, And Beauty la its own excuse; But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing...still must plead, And the rough ore must find its honours in its nse. " So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard...

...Labour," in the following stanzas: " Art's perfect forms no moral need, And Beauty is its own excuse; But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing...virtue still must plead, And the rough ore must find ite honours in ite use. "So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard...

...beholder with life-giving thought, — doing, in short, what Whittier proposes in his "Songs of Labor;" " My simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The...Duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common things among. Happy for them, the toiler, bent Above hia forge or plough, may gain A manlier spirit of content,...

...this use be to lend imagination or poetic depth to daily labour : — "But for the dull and flowerlesa weed Some healing virtue still must plead. And the rough ore must find its honours in its nse. " So haply these my simple lays Of homely toil may serve to show The orchard-bloom...

...Huskers are each heartily honored. In the dedication which introduces these songs, Whittier says : — " So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom gud tasselled maize That skirt and gladden duty's ways, The unsung beauty hid life's common thing*...

...after-thoughts may have a charm for thee. Art's perfect forms no moral need, And beauty is its own excuse ; ' But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing virtue still must plead, And the rou<'h ore must find its honors in its use. So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve...

...after-thoughts may have a charm for thee. Art's perfect forms no moral need, And beauty is its own excuse ; J But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing virtue still must plead, So haply these, my simple lays Of homely toil, may serve to show The orchard bloom and tasselled maize...

...after-thoughts may have a charm for thee. Art's perfect forms no moral need, And beauty is its own excuse ; 41 But for the dull and flowerless weed Some healing...The unsung beauty hid life's common things below. A manlier spirit of content, And feel that life is wisest spent Where the strong working hand makes...