“Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,
And care is light, for Thou hast cared;
Let not our works with self be soiled,
Nor in unsimple ways ensnared.
Through life's long day and death's dark night,
O gentle Jesus! be our light.”

—  Frederick William Faber

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 369.

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British hymn writer and theologian 1814–1863

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