SERVICE SHADOWS
The morrow was a bright September morn;
The earth was beautiful as if new-born;
There was that nameless splendor everywhere,
That wild exhilaration in the air,
Which makes the passers in the city street
Congratulate each other as they meet.
- SERVICE ##
SERVICE
If I had always served God as I have served
you, Madam, I should not have a great account
to render at my death.
Bacon—Life and Times of Francis the First.
Vol. I. P. 46, of ed. 2.
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| text = <poem>And Master Kingston, this I will say—had I
but served God as diligently as I have served
the king, he would not have given me over in
my grey hairs.
Pierre de Bourdeille (Brantome), quoting
Thomas Cromwell to his keeper.
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We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death, but not to be his slaves.
When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,
—no more. They eat your service like apples,
and leave you out. But love them, and they
feel you, and delight in you all the time.
Emerson—Essays. Of Gifts.
Had I but written as many odes in praise of
Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King
. Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred
blessings on me.
Firdusi. (Se e also Bacon}})
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| text = <poem>Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this
great thing?
II Kings. VIII. 13.
"Sidney Godolphin," said Charles (II), "is
never in the way and never out of the way."
Macaulay—History of England. Vol. I. P.
265. Cabinet Ed. Phrase used later to describe a good valet.
Who seeks for aid
Must show how service sought can be repaid.
Servant of God, well done.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. VI. L. 29.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
| author = Milton
| work = Sonnet. On his Blindness.
| seealso = (See also Milton under God, Longfellow under Patience)
They serve God well,
Who serve his creatures.
Mrs. Norton—The Lady of La Garaye. Conclusion. L. 9.
God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God
so well as I have served him, he would never
have damned me to all eternity.
Found in Ockley's History of the Saracens.
An. Hegira 54, A. D. 673.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Domini pudet non servitutis.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my
servitude.
Seneca—Troades. 989.
Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 69.
I am an ass, indeed, you may prove it by my
long ears. I have served him from the hour of
my nativity to this instant, and have nothing
at his hands for my service but blows. When I
am cold, he heats me with beating.
Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 29.
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 455.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 43.
My heart is ever at your service.
Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 76.
The swallow follows not summer more willing
than we your lordship.
Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 31.
You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Sc. 2. L.
19.
Small service is true service while it lasts:
Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn
not one;
Tbe Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.
Wordsworth—To a Child: Written in Her
Album.
SHADOWS
The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has
been snatched from us at the moment of the
election, and in the middle of the contest, while
his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager
as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we
are, and what shadows we pursue.
Burke—Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
Gay—The Persian, Sun, and Cloud. L. 10.
