Trifles
F.
Driver
Driver, F.
F. D.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
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In the public domain
Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as F. Driver, with no address given, and payment of 10s 6d (NLS 341/310). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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Nothing so small that God has made
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Trifle
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Nothing so small that God has made
But has its destined end ;
All in their turn His purpose serve—
All to His glory tend.
The grain of dust, to sight unseen,
With myriads may combine
To form a bulwark to the sea,
Its limits to confine.
The little drop of pearly dew.
Which on the blue-bell lies,
May, in the sun’s bright. beams, appear
A rainbow in the skies ;
Or else the trackless ocean main,
With others, form to share,
On which the ship, when homeward bound,
Some loving heart shall bear.
And thus the humblest of us all
God’s instrument may prove,
To bless and shed o’er fellow-men
The bounty of His love !
F. D.