YOU AND TO-DAYWith every rising of the sunThink of your life as just begun.The past has shrived and buried deepAll yesterdays—there let them sleep,Nor seek to summon back one ghostOf that innumerable host.Concern yourself with but to-day;Woo it and teach it to obeyYour wish and will. Since time beganTo-day has been the friend of man.But in his blindness and his sorrowHe looks to yesterday and to-morrow.You and to-day! a soul sublimeAnd the great pregnant hour of time.With God between to bind the train,Go forth, I say—attain—attain.
With every rising of the sunThink of your life as just begun.
The past has shrived and buried deepAll yesterdays—there let them sleep,
Nor seek to summon back one ghostOf that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but to-day;Woo it and teach it to obey
Your wish and will. Since time beganTo-day has been the friend of man.
But in his blindness and his sorrowHe looks to yesterday and to-morrow.
You and to-day! a soul sublimeAnd the great pregnant hour of time.
With God between to bind the train,Go forth, I say—attain—attain.