The poem advises the reader to start each day by praying to God and asking for divine gifts like usefulness, contentment, and success. It tells the reader to resign all fear, doubt, and despair, as the stars and sea continue their work undisturbed for centuries without understanding the purpose, just obeying their unseen cause. The poem encourages the reader that like the stars and sea, God's abundance will be held in trust for those who wait serenely and work faithfully.
The poem advises the reader to start each day by praying to God and asking for divine gifts like usefulness, contentment, and success. It tells the reader to resign all fear, doubt, and despair, as the stars and sea continue their work undisturbed for centuries without understanding the purpose, just obeying their unseen cause. The poem encourages the reader that like the stars and sea, God's abundance will be held in trust for those who wait serenely and work faithfully.
The poem advises the reader to start each day by praying to God and asking for divine gifts like usefulness, contentment, and success. It tells the reader to resign all fear, doubt, and despair, as the stars and sea continue their work undisturbed for centuries without understanding the purpose, just obeying their unseen cause. The poem encourages the reader that like the stars and sea, God's abundance will be held in trust for those who wait serenely and work faithfully.
An Ode
Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three