WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Do you lazily nurse your knee and muse?

Do you contemplate your conquering thews

With a critical satisfaction?

But yesterday's laurels are dry and dead

And to-morrow's triumph is still ahead;

To-day is the day for action.

Yesterday's sun: is it shining still?

To-morrow's dawn: will its coming fill

To-day, if to-day's light fail us?

Not so. The past is forever past;

To-day's is the hand which holds us fast,

And to-morrow may never hail us.

The present and only the present endures,

So it's hey for to-day! for to-day is yours

For the goal you are still pursuing.

What you have done is a little amount;

What you will do is of lesser account,

But the test is, what are you doing?