The work of to-day, then, I must not postpone, For I only am sure of to-day: Of each single hour, I must give a report, And to-day is too long, and to-morrow too short Important Truths. PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. Those ages have no memory; but they left The tombs of monarchs, to the clouds up-piled, Like the night-heaven when clouds are black with rain. But now a better spirit is awake, And spreads himself, and shall not sleep again; Its white and holy wings above the peaceful lands. They fade! they fly!--but TRUTH survives their flight; All blended, like the rainbow's radiant braid, Pour yet, and still shall pour, the blaze that cannot fade. BRYANT. MORNING HYMN. Oh when wilt Thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.-Ps. c. i. 2. Come to me, Lord! when first I wake- Come to me in the sultry noon, Come to me in the evening shade, Come to me in the midnight hour— Come to me through life's varied way,― H. V. T. FORTUNE TELLING. THE gipsies tell us they can read The dark uncertain morrow, Though well we know God hides from man But some things we may all foretell, Say, are you peevish, fretful, cross : Are you a vain and flaunting thing, Is Self the ruler of your heart, Are you an idle sluggish drone, In youth's fresh seed-time sleeping ?- Our fortune thus we make or mar,— Our happiness or ruin. Heaven means to us the highest good That we can be possessing, And 'tis our fault if we should lose Such things are all we need to know Of future joy or sorrow; Do you your duty well to-day, And fear no ill to-morrow. Important Truths. |