BECAUSE I LIVED TO-DAY
Let me to-day do something that will take A little sadness froin the world 's vast ■ store, And may I be so favoured as to make Of joy's too scanty sum a little more. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foeor friend. Nor would I pass unseeing worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend. However meagre be my worldly wealth, Let me give something that shall aid my kind — A word of courage, or a thought of health Dropped as I pass for troubled hcarts to. find. Lef me to-night' look back across the span 'Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say— • Because of some good.act to beast' or man— "The world is better that I lived to-day." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 12
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