“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
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Context: Don't you understand even seedtime and reaping? How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
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O God! who dost abide?”
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"Endeavor" in Godey's Magazine, Vol. 72 (1866), p. 370.
Context: "What is the harvest of thy saints,
O God! who dost abide?
Where grow the garlands of thy chiefs
In blood and sorrow dyed?
What have thy servants for their pains?"
"This only — to have tried."