Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[How do we shape our lives from day to day!]
How do we shape our lives from day to day!Here form an interest—there a hope to fill
The hours, and here a pleasure, whose sweet thrill
May wake the heart-pulse to a livelier play!
How do we shape our lives that fleet away!—
Our quick thoughts prey on expectation still;
The present answereth our desire but ill,
Though pleasures—interests may our call obey.
The world lives in its future evermore!
To-morrow is the idol of us all—
And yet though 'tis that future we adore,
We care for what may day by day befall.
Oh, that on neither we our souls might pour,
Another Future—thine, Eternity! doth call!
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