I.—Work
Jean
Ingelow
Ingelow, Jean
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Fukushima
Kailey
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
One of four poems with the general title Four Sonnets by Jean Ingelow (417-18), the third of which is illustrated. (AC)
Good Words
11
417
Like coral insects multitudinous
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I.—Work
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Like coral insects multitudinous
The minutes are whereof our life is made.
They build it up as in the deep’s blue shade
It grows, it comes to light, and then, and thus
For both there is an end. The populous
Sea-blossoms close, our minutes that have paid
Life’s debt of work are spent ; the work is laid
Before their feet that shall come after us.
We may not stay to watch if it will speed,
The bard if on some luter’s string his song
Live sweetly yet ; the hero if his star
Doth shine. Work is its own best earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.