Living
To-day
From The Home Book of Verse, ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
Living
Why fear to-morrow, timid heart?
Why tread the future’s way?
We only need to do our part
To-day, dear child, to-day.
The past is written! Close the book
On pages sad and gay;
Within the future do not look,
But live to-day—to-day.
’Tis this one hour that God has given;
His Now we must obey;
And it will make our earth his heaven
To live to-day—to-day.
Cite this poem
MLA
Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley. “To-day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ward_lac/1/.
Chicago
Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley. “To-day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ward_lac/1/.
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