IDLENESS.
There is no remedy for time misspent: No healing for the waste of idleness. Whose very langour is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess, Oh hours of indolence and discontent Not now to he redeemed ! ye sting not less Because I know this span of life was lent Nor lofty duties, not for selfishness. Not to be whiled away in aimless dreams, _ But to improve ourselves and serve mankind, Xlfe and its choicest faculties were given. Man should be ever better than he seems And shape his acts and discipline hie mind To walk adorning earth, with Heaven.^
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 766, 5 November 1886, Page 4
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103IDLENESS. New Zealand Mail, Issue 766, 5 November 1886, Page 4
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