Zinzendorff and Other Poems/Education of Pious and Indigent Young Men

by Lydia Huntley Sigourney

EDUCATION OF PIOUS AND INDIGENT YOUNG MEN.

There are, who knowledge prize,
    Who for its blessings pray,
But penury shuts it from their eyes,
    Rend ye those shades away.

There are, who fain would toil
    The immortal mind to lead,
They have no skill to till its soil,
    Send ye the gifts they need.

Ye, who such bounty yield
    Like Heaven's reviving rain,
Who gird these striplings for the field
    Shall see Goliath slain.