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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 16. THE GREAT PRIVILEGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER
First Line: It is a great privilege to be deemed
Last Line: For angels gladly would their tasks assume.
Subject(s): Youth
First Line: It is a great privilege to be deemed
Last Line: For angels gladly would their tasks assume.
Subject(s): Youth
It is a great privilege to be deemed
Worthy to suffer for some great cause or good,
And only righteous men are so esteemed
That they are chosen from the common brood.
The idle, indolent, indifferent kind
Are never asked to bear the brunt of toil,
Nor do they ever gain immortal mind
Or reap the best fruits of the tiller's soil.
And Christ Himself has been the guiding star
Of those who've suffered long and patiently,
And they have looked with hopeful eyes afar
To that fair land which ever theirs will be;
And though at times the pain and grief they bear
Seems to o'erwhelm them in life's darkened room,
They ne'er should be bowed down by dark despair,
For angels gladly would their tasks assume.
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