Seek And Find.

Though long it be, years may repay the debt;
None loseth that which he in time may get.

Weigh me the fire; or canst thou find
A way to measure out the wind;
Distinguish all those floods that are
Mix'd in that watery theatre;
And taste thou them as saltless there
As in their channel first they were.
Tell me the people that do keep
Within the kingdoms of the deep;
Or fetch me back that cloud again
Beshiver'd into seeds of rain;
Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears
Of corn, when summer shakes his ears;
Show me that world of stars, and whence
They noiseless spill their influence:
This if thou canst, then show me Him
That rides the glorious cherubim.

If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

Conquer we shall, but we must first contend;
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

To seek of God more than we well can find,
Argues a strong distemper of the mind.

Hast thou begun an act? ne'er then give o'er:
No man despairs to do what's done before.