ANISE AND CUMMIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6667, 31 March 1883, Page 3 (Supplement)

ANISE AND CUMMIN.

Weary with homely duties done, Tired through treading day by day, Over and ov- r from nun to sun, One and the same small round alwav, Under her breath I heard her say : "Oh ! for the sweep *f the keen-edf-rd scythe, Oh ! for the swaths, wheu tin* reaping o'er — i'rrof of tho toil's success. I tithe Anise and cummin—such petty store ! Cummin and Aui.se - nothing wore ' 14 Only a meajjro garden-space, (hit < f the world so rich ;ind broad — Only a .strijj of standing-plaee, only u patch of herb-strewn sod <;iv«ju, in which to work for (.Jod ! K Yet is my hand as full of cure Under the Fhine and frost and rain, r.nd weeding and v,ut«;;,ii-g there. Kvcn a.s though 1 d-j-.med a vain "Were to bo piled with theaves of grain. '' Then, whon the work \< done. what cheir H ivft I lr» greet me, or small ? What that shall show how year by ytvir I'atient I've wrought at duty's cill'r Ani.se and cummin- that is all Turning. I raised tho drooping head, .!u»t as I heard a sob :iris>i : '■ Aiiisc and cummin and mint," I said (K'ssi'ig hor over her aching eves), •'ijveu our Lord doth not despise. "Think you II« InokH for headed whe;ii Out of your plot of ;;ardeu i,Tf»uijd ' Think you He counts as ineompleto Service that from such scanty bound Yields Him the tithing He has found? - What are to Him the world's wido plains Him who hath never a need to fill Ereu oae garner with our small gains? Yet, If the plot is yours to till, Titho Him the aalae and cummin still!" —MAJ&QAJIET J. PftflSTON.