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A PICTURE (THE HOUSEBUILDERS), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring hither trowel, carving-tool and knife
Last Line: Eternal in the heavens, for ever one.


BRING hither trowel, carving-tool and knife:
Finish the stonework, plane the seasoned wood!
Let all the work be perfect; sound and good;
These two will build a house up,—man and wife,—
Its rooms made musical with joyous strife
Of children's voices, and sweet hardihood
Of laughter where each faithful friend has stood
The brunt of time. While on their future life,
Wistful, she gazes, he is fain to prove
Her dream's foundations, marking the commands
Of the great Architect, that when all's done,
Dug in the Rock and built of purest love,
They may possess a house not made with hands,
Eternal in the heavens, for ever one.





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