Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | II. Prayer and Aspiration | | The Aim | | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | O THOU who lovest not alone | |
| The swift success, the instant goal, | |
| But hast a lenient eye to mark | |
| The failures of th’ inconstant soul, | |
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| Consider not my little worth,— | 5 |
| The mean achievement, scamped in act, | |
| The high resolve and low result, | |
| The dream that durst not face the fact. | |
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| But count the reach of my desire. | |
| Let this be something in Thy sight:— | 10 |
| I have not, in the slothful dark, | |
| Forgot the Vision and the Height. | |
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| Neither my body nor my soul | |
| To earth’s low ease will yield consent. | |
| I praise Thee for my will to strive. | 15 |
| I bless Thy goad of discontent. | | | | |
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