Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOU AND TODAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX


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First Line: With every rising of the sun
Last Line: With god himself to bind the twain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


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.
Concern yourself with but today,
Woo it, and teach it to obey
Your will and wish. Since time began
Today has been the friend of man;

But in his blindness and his sorrow,
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
You, and today! a soul sublime,
And the great pregnant hour of time,
With God himself to bind the twain!
Go forth, I say—attain, attain!
With God himself to bind the twain!





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