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Contentment in Humble Work: Lines by Mrs. Browning

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

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Contentment in Humble Work: Lines by Mrs. Browning

By Mrs. Browning

—Let us be content in work, To do the thing we can, and not presume To fret because it's little, 'Twill employ Seven men, they say, to make a perfect pin. Who makes the head, consents to miss the point; Who makes the point, agrees to miss the head; And if a man should cry, “I want a pin, And I must make it straightway, head and point,” His wisdom is not worth the pin he wants. —Mrs. Browning.