Thursday, November 1, 2012

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by Wendell Berry

Whatever is foreseen in joy
 Must be lived out from day to day.
 Vision held open in the dark
 By our ten thousand days of work.
 Harvest will fill the barn; for that
 The hand must ache, the face must sweat.

 And yet no leaf or grain is filled
 By work of ours; the field is tilled
 And left to grace. That we may reap,
 Great work is done while we're asleep.

 When we work well, a Sabbath mood
 Rests on our day, and finds it good. 

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