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For a time , his patents prevented other engineers from developing new , equally efficient steam-engine designs . And after that thou hast been busily employed for a time about thy servants , and other men with whom thou shalt have occasions , and hast profitably spent with them so much time as shall be truly needful , thou shalt then break from these external doings , and shalt return again to thy prayers and devotions , which thou shalt perform according to the grace that God shall give thee for it ; and so doing , thou , by the grace of our Lord , shalt put away and avoid sloth , laziness , idleness and vain rest , which often creep upon us through the deceitfulness of our nature , under pretense or colour of contemplation or other spiritual recollections ; whereby we come to omit the performance of good and meritorious external affairs and businesses pertaining to us and our charge by the appointment or providence of God . She writes at the climax of her poem , " If these great patient / dyings all these agonies / and woundbearings and bloodshed / can teach us how to live , these dyings were not wasted " ; and she is certain that they were not wasted , and ends the poem with " Beauty is eternal / and dust is for a time . For a time the courtship was off and on . The two others preceded him a few years on the ranch , but for a time he considered it his duty to observe them closely during the week and report their shortcomings to me .