This line is from the sonnet On his blindness by John Milton.
The poet compares God to a great king (lines 12-13 His state is kingly...) who has thousands of servants to do whatever he orders. The servants would do two things: stand at attention and wait for orders.
In the last line of the sonnet, the poet is saying that he is performing his duty by waiting attentively for God to give him an order, which for Milton would be to write because that was his one talent.
The poet compares God to a great king (lines 12-13 His state is kingly...) who has thousands of servants to do whatever he orders. The servants would do two things: stand at attention and wait for orders.
In the last line of the sonnet, the poet is saying that he is performing his duty by waiting attentively for God to give him an order, which for Milton would be to write because that was his one talent.
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