IF WE HAD BUT A DAY.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

IF WE HAD BUT A DAY.

We should fill the hours with the sweetest tilings, If we had bat a day; Wo should drink alone at the purest

springs In our onward way; Wo should love with a lifetime’s love in

an hour, If the hours 'were few; Wo should rest, not" for dreams, hut for fresher power To be and to do.

We should guide our wayward or wearied ■ wills By the clearest -light ; We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills If they lay in eight; Wo should trample the pride and the discontent Beneath cur feet; Wo should take whatever a good God sent,' With a trust complete.

should waste no mo incuts in weak regret, If the day 'were but one; / If what wo remember and what wo/ forget ' Went -out with the sun; At e .should bo from our clamorous selves sot free To 'work or to pray ; And to ba what the Father would have, us to be. If wo had hut a day.