Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Poem for July 27, 2021 - Count That Day Lost, by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

 Count That Day Lost

George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)

    (Mary Anne Evans)
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went --
Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face--
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost --
Then count that day as worse than lost.

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