Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Nov 1850 – Oct 1919 | American |
Coleman’s Rural World 53.49 (Dec. 5, 1900): 6
Let me today do something that will take
A little sadness from the world's vast store,
And may I be so favored 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 meager 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 tonight 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 today."
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