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.