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Your Place

by John Oxenham

William Arthur Dunkerley

Is your place a small place?
Tend it with care!--
He set you there.
Is your place a large place?
Guard it with care!--
He set you there.
Whatever your place, it is
Not yours alone, but His
Who set you there.




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