<h2><SPAN name="poem24"></SPAN>YOU AND TO-DAY</h2>
<p class="poetry">With every rising of the sun<br/>
Think of your life as just begun.</p>
<p class="poetry">The past has shrived and buried deep<br/>
All yesterdays—there let them sleep,</p>
<p class="poetry">Nor seek to summon back one ghost<br/>
Of that innumerable host.</p>
<p class="poetry">Concern yourself with but to-day;<br/>
Woo it and teach it to obey</p>
<p class="poetry">Your wish and will. Since time began<br/>
To-day has been the friend of man.</p>
<p class="poetry">But in his blindness and his sorrow<br/>
He looks to yesterday and to-morrow.</p>
<p class="poetry">You and to-day! a soul sublime<br/>
And the great pregnant hour of time.</p>
<p class="poetry">With God between to bind the train,<br/>
Go forth, I say—attain—attain.</p>
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