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In Her Diary

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Go, little book, and be the looking-glass     Of her dear soul,     The mirror of her moments as they pass,     Keeping the whole;     Wherein she still may look on yesterday     To-day to cheer,     And towards To-morrow pass upon her way     Without a fear.     For yesterday hath never won a crown,     However fair,     But that To-day a better for its own     Might win and wear;     And yesterday hath never joyed a joy,     However sweet,     That this To-day or that To-morrow too     May not repeat.     Think too, To-day is trustee for to-morrow,     And present pain     That's bravely borne shall ease the future sorrow     Nor cry in vain     'Spare us To-day, To-morrow bring the rod,'     For then again     To-morrow from To-morrow still shall borrow,     A little ease to gain:     But bear to-day whate'er To-day may bring,     'Tis the one way to make To-morrow sing.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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