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THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.ToC<br />
"Go, work within my vineyard's bound,<br />
At eve your 'penny'[1] shall be found:"<br />
So spake the vineyard's lord, and they<br />
Began to toil at break of day.<br />
For hours the sun had shown his face,<br />
When idlers in the market-place<br />
Once and again were sent within<br />
The vineyard's wall their wage to win.<br />
Nay, when but one short hour remains<br />
Before the sun its goal attains,<br />
More loiterers hear the Lord's command<br />
And set to work with willing hand.<br />
The steward came at close of day<br />
Their wage to reckon and to pay;<br />
And they whose toil could scarcely tire,<br />
Received a penny for their hire.<br />
But they who the day's burden bore<br />
And noonday heat, expected more:<br />
And murmur'd that the generous lord<br />
To all one penny should accord.<br />
But he replied, "I wrong not you;<br />
I give you the full wages due;<br />
And why should you my bounty blame,<br />
In paying these beyond their claim?"<br />
Lord, to Thy vineyard Thou dost call<br />
The least, the youngest of us all:
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