YOU AND TO-DAY

With every rising of the sun

Think of your life as just begun.

The past has shrived and buried deep

All yesterdays — there let them sleep,

Nor seek to summon back one ghost

Of that innumerable host.

Concern yourself with but to-day;

Woo it and teach it to obey

Your wish and will. Since time began

To-day has been the friend of man.

But in his blindness and his sorrow

He looks to yesterday and to-morrow.

You and to-day! a soul sublime

And the great pregnant hour of time.

With God between to bind the train,

Go forth, I say — attain — attain.