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TOIL, by                    
First Line: Investment of the golden hours of youth!
Last Line: From toil to truth, 'tis god's eternal song!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


Investment of the golden hours of youth!
Thy thought debars the wicked touch of sloth,
Which, entering, were to design untruth
Upon the quilt of time and mar the cloth;
Calm toil and truth ascend each ladder's rung
With certain step their journey marked by trust;
Though oft their praises but remain unsung
Save when the Judge of all declares them just.
Toil needs a trust divine, trust needs a heart
On which the weakened mortal may recline
When strength is gone and spent his human art;
Trust finds that truth rests in the heart divine.
Ah, toil thou art! Pray, make man's sinews strong!
From toil to truth, 'tis God's eternal song!





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