already seem to share
In God's love: what does New-year's hymn declare?
What other meaning do these verses bear?

All service ranks the same with God:
If now, as formerly he trod
Paradise, his presence fills
Our earth, each only as God wills
Can work--God's puppets, best and worst,
Are we; there is no last nor first.

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"?
Costs it more pain that this, ye call
A "great event," should come to pass,
Than that? Untwine me from the mass
Of deeds which make up life, one deed
Power shall fall short in, or exceed!

And more of it, and more of it! oh, yes--
I will pass each, and see their happiness,
And envy none--being just as great, no doubt,
Useful to men, and dear to God, as they!
A pretty thing to care about
So mightily, this single holiday!

But let the sun shine! Wherefore repine?
--With thee to lead me, O Day of mine,
Down the grass path grey with dew,
Under the pine-wood, blind with boughs,
Where the swallow never flew
Nor yet cicala dared carouse--
No, dared carouse!"

From "Pippa Passes"
Robert Browning

As Pippa leaves her room in the full spirit of this hymn, full of joy,
hope and love, she passes into the street. We hardly catch a glimpse of
her until the close of the day, when she comes back and lies down to
sleep: but we hear her songs and see the influence which she
unconsciously exerts. This is the real theme of the poem.

Browning's poetic play reveals to us in four scenes the other side of
life, the happier people to whom Pippa referred in her soliloquy. We
look first into the interior of the old house of which Pippa has spoken
with a kind of awe, and see the proud Ottima who owns the mills where
Pippa is but a poor worker. In the dark gloom of one of the rooms Ottima
has become the sharer in a murder, and, under the influence of Pippa's
song, which is heard outside, she and her companion realize their guilt
and are overcome with remorse.

At noon we are introduced to a young artist, Jules, who is just bringing
home his bride, Phene, whom he has married thinking her a princess, but
who is really a poor, ignorant child. She has been employed
unconsciously, to herself, and innocently used by some degraded artists
as a means of rebuking the idealist, Jules.