| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | A genial moment oft has given | | By Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) |
| | | A GENIAL moment oft has given | |
| What years of toil and pain, | |
| Of long industrious toil, have striven | |
| To win, and all in vain. | |
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| Yet count not, when thine end is won, | 5 |
| That labour merely lost; | |
| Nor say it had been wiser done | |
| To spare the painful cost. | |
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| When heaped upon the altar lie | |
| All things to feed the fire— | 10 |
| One spark alighting from on high, | |
| The flames at once aspire; | |
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| But those sweet gums and fragrant woods, | |
| Its rich materials rare, | |
| By tedious quest o’er lands and floods | 15 |
| Had first been gathered there. | | | | |
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