Dismiss me not thy service, Lord

Dismiss me not thy service, Lord. Thomas Toke Lynch* (1818-1871). First published in The Rivulet (1856), where it had six stanzas. Most books (EH, SofP, CP) have shortened the text to three stanzas, 1, 3 and 6. The missing ones were: 2. How many serve, how many more May to the service come; To tend the vines, the grapes to store, Thou dost appoint for some: Thou hast thy young men at the war, Thy little ones at home. 4. O ye who serve, remember One The worker’s way who trod; He served as man, but now his throne, It is the throne of God: The sceptre He hath to us shown Is like a blossoming rod. 5. Firm fibres of the tree of...