Time & Brevity
To-day
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Time & Brevity
So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of Eternity
This new Day is born;
Into Eternity,
At night, will return.
Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it for ever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
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MLA
Carlyle, Thomas. “To-day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/carlyle_t/2/.
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Carlyle, Thomas. “To-day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/carlyle_t/2/.
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