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Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Nov 1850 – Oct 1919 | American

With every rising of the sun,
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The past has shrived and buried deep
shim.gifAll yesterdays; there let them sleep.

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

But, in his blindness and his sorrow,
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You, and today! A soul sublime,
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With G-d himself to bind the twain!
shim.gifGo forth, I say – attain, attain!
With G-d Himself to bind the twain!.