And this is what we need to memorise
for our elective subject..
Teacher gave me only 1 day to memorise this poem..
I would like to share this poem with you...
I wil write this without a copy..hahass..
lets see if i can hehe^^
ON WORK
by Kahlil Gibrun
What is it to work with love?
It is to weave a cloth with a threads
Drawn from your heart, even as if
your beloved were to wear that cloth
It is to build a house with affection,
even as if your beloved were to dwell
in that house,
It is to sow seed with tenderness, and
reap the harvest with joy, even as if
your beloved were to eat the fruit
It is to charge all your things in fashion,
with a breathe of your own spirit
And to know that all the blessed dead are
standing about you and watching
Often have I heard you say, as if speaking
in sleep " he who works in marble,and
finds the shape of his own soul in the stone,
is nobler man he who ploughs the soil
and he who seizes the rainbow to
lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man,
is more man who makes sandals for our feet
But I say, not in sleep but in the
overwake -fullness of noontide,that
the wind speaks not more sweetly to the
giant oaks than to the least of all
the blades of grass
And he alone is great,who turns
the voice of the wind into the
song made sweeter by
his own loving
Work is love made visible
And if you cant work with love,but
only with distaste, it is better that
you should leave your work and sit
at the gate of the temple and
take arms of more
who work with joy
For if you bake a bread with indifference,
you bake a bitter bread that feeds
but half mans hunger
And if you grudge the crushing of the grape,
the grudge distills a
poison in the wine
And if you sing though as angels,
and love not the singing, you muffle man's
ear to the voices of the day
and to the voices of the night..
THE END^^ YEHAY! hahahass
i'll get nervous for sure on monday that i need to
recite this in front of my classmates! argh..
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