The Good Endeavor

Look on yonder yet

There’s work still to be done

Look on yonder yet

The risen one has yet to come

See the work dog carry on

See the songbird build its nest

See the old horse, weary, yawn

Their time’s not come to rest

There’s a mighty good crop

And the harvest is plentiful

Of what the sower did drop

Little is lamentable

Get to work, you tired son

Beat your sword to plowshare

Get to work; the battle’s won

Seek to mend the disrepair

Take on yourself the good endeavor

And bring new life to all this death

Adorn the dark with grace forever

And labor ‘till your final breath

Matthew 9:37

- M. D. Eaton

“Grandpa-Great” - Michigan, Nov. 1958