The Great Employer pays not by the day, Or by the piece, but only by the will, -- The loving purpose longing to fulfil, The glad response that hastens to obey; And when the Great Employer comes to pay, He bids the worker take all that he will, The heavenly gold of joy, and larger skill, And sweet content, and songs upon the way. When will the stupid cruelties of man Learn God's high art of wages? pay desire? Pay faithfulness that does the best it can? Pay eager loyalties that never tire? Adopt the one superbly prudent plan, And throw their brutal bargainings in the fire? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND by HAYDEN CARRUTH MUSKETAQUID by RALPH WALDO EMERSON DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 6. NIGHT LANDING by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING by ROBERT HERRICK THE SHRINE OF VENUS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON |