“Work is its own best earthly need,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

— Jean Ingelow

"Work", line 12, p. 54.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

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British writer 1820–1897

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“Work is its own best earthly need,Else have we none more than the sea-born throngWho wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

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“Work is its own best earthly need,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar.”