toilsome

In the furrowed land

The toilsome and patient oxen stand;

Lifting the yoke encumbered head,

And marvel men should quit their easy chair,

The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace.

Oh, there is sweetness in the mountain air

The toilsome pleasure sickens into pain;

As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side

He wound with toilsome march his long array.

Stout Gloster stood aghast in speechless trance:

(A sigh the absent claims--the dead, a tear)

Recall those nights that closed thy toilsome days,

Still hear thy Parnell in his living lays:

And, as the sun drew down to west,

We climbed the toilsome Polden crest,

And saw, of landskip sights the best,

As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods,

To the music of rustling leaves kick'd by my feet, (for 'twas autumn,)

Cursing his frail supporter, treacherous prop!

With toilsome steps, and difficult, moves on.

Thus fares it oft with other than the feet