This truth comes to us more and more,

                          the longer we live, that in what field

or in what uniform, or with what aims

we do our duty, matters very little;                                  

or even what our duty is,

                          great or small, splendid or obscure,

only to find our duty certainly and somewhere,

somehow do it faithfully                                                 

makes us good, strong, happy and useful,

                              and tunes our lives

into some feeble echo

of the life of God.                                     

-Phillips Brooks