"My business is preaching the gospel," Said Carey the Cobbler one day; "And I mend shoes to pay the expenses, The needful expenses to pay." So the shoes of Carey the Cobbler Were sturdily first to set forth On the path that leads eastward and westward, To the south and the ultimate north. So the shoes that he cheerily cobbled Have led a victorious throng Over Hard Road and Sad Road and Dark Road, To the Country of Laughter and Song. Do you wear them, -- the shoes that he cobbled? They will carry you firmly afar From the Land of the Miser and Glutton, Where splendor and luxury are. And their soles are none of the smoothest, And their patches are coming apart, But they lead by the pathway of service To the Father's home and His heart! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE KISS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR KEATS; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE MENAGERIE by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY TRUST by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 109 by PHILIP SIDNEY ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 7. ON THE USE OF POETRY by MARK AKENSIDE TO DR. AIKIN ON HIS COMPLAINING THAT SHE NEGLECTED HIM by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |