 | [Poems by Cary in] The Poetical Works Of Alice and Phoebe Cary |  |
NOW.
If something waits, and you should now
Begin and go right through it,
Don't think, if 't is put off a day,
You 'll not mind to do it.
Begin and go right through it,
Don't think, if 't is put off a day,
You 'll not mind to do it.
Waste not moments, no nor words,
In telling what you could do
Some other time; the present is
For doing what you should do.
In telling what you could do
Some other time; the present is
For doing what you should do.
Don't do right unwillingly,
And stop to plan and measure;
'T is working with the heart and soul,
That makes our duty pleasure.
And stop to plan and measure;
'T is working with the heart and soul,
That makes our duty pleasure.
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