<h2><SPAN name="poem26"></SPAN>MISSION</h2>
<p class="poetry">If you are sighing for a lofty work,<br/>
If great ambitions dominate your mind,<br/>
Just watch yourself and see you do not shirk<br/>
The common little ways of being kind.</p>
<p class="poetry">If you are dreaming of a future goal,<br/>
When, crowned with glory, men shall own your
power,<br/>
Be careful that you let no struggling soul<br/>
Go by unaided in the present hour.</p>
<p class="poetry">If you are moved to pity for the earth,<br/>
And long to aid it, do not look so high,<br/>
You pass some poor, dumb creature faint with thirst—<br/>
All life is equal in the eternal eye.</p>
<p class="poetry">If you would help to make the wrong things right,<br/>
Begin at home: there lies a lifetime’s
toil.<br/>
Weed your own garden fair for all men’s sight,<br/>
Before you plan to till another’s soil.</p>
<p class="poetry">God chooses His own leaders in the world,<br/>
And from the rest He asks but willing hands.<br/>
As mighty mountains into place are hurled,<br/>
While patient tides may only shape the sands.</p>
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