🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let me to-day do something that shall take
   A little sadness from the world’s vast store,
And may I be so favoured as to make
   Of joy’s too scanty sum a little more
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed
   Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend;
Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,
   Or sin by silence when I should defend.
However meagre be my worldly wealth,
   Let me give something that shall aid my kind—
A word of courage, or a thought of health,
   Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts to find.
Let me to-night look back across the span
   ’Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say—
Because of some good act to beast or man—
   “The world is better that I lived to-day.”

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