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You And To-Day

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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.

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