In Due Season

By John McCrae

1872-1918


If night should come and find me at my toil,
         When all Life's day I had, tho' faintly, wrought,
And shallow furrows, cleft in stony soil
         Were all my labour: Shall I count it naught

If only one poor gleaner, weak of hand,
         Shall pick a scanty sheaf where I have sown?
"Nay, for of thee the Master doth demand
         Thy work: the harvest rests with Him alone."

DayPoems Poem No. 1119
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