The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1870-06-30

To whom spelling were yet suillcien
employ,
Gay youth, earnest manhood, and still
gravcr age
Look forward to what shall their effort
engage,
And misses and maidens and women com
bined
Are ponlerlng. "My mission, my mission
o! where shall find"
IT'S not the high position, not the grand.
Result for which man and mankind shoul'
strive.
IT'S 10 do well ana perfectly whate'er
One does, however insignificant
The act may seem, and be content to leav
Results alone. The mission unto each
OF us, if young, or old; high, low; rich
poor;
Learned, ignorant; is this: Thou hast
IT'S thine, thine only, and no other one
Can occupy it but myself, and by
None other can its duties be performed,
For its relationships are thine, and can
Be no ones else. There. whatsoever thy
hand
May find to do, do with thy might, thy SOU
With earnest, patient Willingness engaged
To do it best thou canst. Then hast thou
found
The work, the mission God appointeth thee
And in thy labor must be blessed. IL then
Thou puttest faithfully to usury
Tile talent first entrusted thee, each act
Fits thee forhiyher place and broader sphere
'Tis in forgetfulness of self.we find
Life's highest good. Too much we look
for ends;
Too little to the means caring for what
We hope to be, neGlecting what we are.
Too much the world at large, gazing affair."
Sees not the things which are a-nigh;
And, in expectancy of the ITO Gomez
Oerlooks the no,o, and all belongs to it,
Ard so defeats itself. The ladder first
Hath need of locer rounds, to reach the
higher;
So endless blessings, linking in and in,
Spring from. and most tremendously unite
Diversity of taste, and talent, and pursuit
1t matters not, for full development,
Hop humble be u human souls career,
So he, or she, accept it; lore it; choose
1t; labor in it with zest. That gives
1t harmony, and worth, and influence,
And calls for its full need of honor and
Esteem, according to its place.
Mike at
His garden work, John ditthing, draining
the
Wet soil, which else were unprOductive and
TO the planted crop, must each
Demand hi, modicum Of well-earned
praise,
As he, the broad browed senator, who holds
The tiller-ropes, that twitch and twirl the
State
Ship at his will. Their labor's needed, so
Is his. Z, ey do their possible, at their
Work, in their way, and he cannot do more,
The honor each should have differs in kind,
Not quantity.
Who thinks the tiny ants
Short, narrowed life of busy toll, is not
Complete in harmony of time, and place,
And perfectncss, as is the elephants?
Perhaps tits better to be like ones kind,
Better an ant than elephant in life:
Safe, happy, useful in the common hive,
Than something strange to attract gaping
crowd.
He who will mount Fame's towering pin
naclc, E
Must stand appraised, apart, alone-severet
BY wondrous individuality,
Which, when possessed to any great extent
Makes its possessor strangely lone and sad
Conscious that few can sympathize will
him,
Even while he longs, with most intense
desire,
TO find if only one, can comprehend,
Appreciate, fraternize with him. Fulfill
The search. lie cannot lift them up to hin,
Nor yet they drag him down to them.
This is
What makes men solitary, feeling most
Alone in crowds, and least so by them.
selves
This conscious individuality
This lone, exalted, unknown ego Of
The inner sphere, differing from others il
All estimate of world. subjective, and
Objective h-eXpanded and enlarged
Periphery of minds pressed-Out circum
ference
Shirt of the ito come" sent forth before
Its ime!-'tis unto its possessOr both
A torment and jOy-joy in the sense
OF nobler ends and aims, of highc
thoughts.
Subtler perceptions. kecner reason, and
An intuition nicer. far, than the
Transfusing crowds; yet torture In tn
keen,
Sharp knowledge few can ever share hi
pure
Delights. his higher, broader realm Q
thought,
And feeling. and desire, whose solitude
One. full. appreciativc companionship
Could make blissiul as life Of Gods.
The daintiest viands give not forth thei
sweet
Deliciousncss, entire, to him who feast
alone.
The loveliest flowers somewhat their beau
ty veil
When only one behOlds their form and hue
And sights, most glorious, Nature show
Need sympathy Of thought and speech, t
full
Enjoyment of her panoramic views.
Yet must the loneness of Earth's gifte
| ones,
| who... feet must tread rs low as others d.