To-Day

Robert Southwell.

The past did not behold to-day; the future shall not. We must use it now if it is to be of any benefit to mankind.

So here hath been dawning
    Another blue day;
  Think, wilt thou let it
    Slip useless away?

Out of Eternity
    This new day is born;
  Into Eternity,
    At night will return.

Behold it aforetime
    No eye ever did;
  So soon it for ever
    From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning
    Another blue day;
  Think, wilt thou let it
    Slip useless away?