Be Calm And Care Prevail Poem by Hannington Mumo

Be calm to identify the path that rolls the east of sunrise
And flee anon from the tendons of vanity and vice;
Launch your axles into toils of sun and sweat,
Let them work out whatever heavens shall bring to pass;
For none has the Lord in their debt
That they should point and prove their case.

Nonetheless labor on for his promises remain unsullied true;
Questioning has not began with you;
Your ancestors did blaspheme with dreadful ado,
And vilified famine and fate and fairies' fury;
And though none of them knew the celestial jury,
They deemed its verdict bent on ruin!

Sure as the unerring scripture ordains,
You'll gather into barns your hard-earned grain;
For the fair Father rewards His diligent own.
Yet this maxim of yore I beseech recall:
That you may for the fall gather the grain
But an inane, momentary indiscretion ruins it all!