Classic Poem

I then implore that thou would'st fashion so
My natural talents, that, with them, I may
Become a labourer while here below,
To lessen human sorrows! — Oh, I pray
That I may be a something! — May the day,
E'en of my pilgrimage, or ere it wane
Behold a monument, whence men may say,
" He, in his day, did his day's work! " Oh deign
My lot to rescue from " unprofitable " stain!