To-day’s the Time

ONCE YESTERDAY’S gone, it’s mightyfar off,And TO-MORROW’S still further away.So whatever there is you want to be doing,You might as well do it TO-DAY.

There’s only one time you ever can claim,To-day’s the one day you possess;If we all of us all the time realized that,We’d spend it far better, I guess.

There isn’t a minute we’re sure of but NOW,So we might as well grab it and smile;Give yesterday trouble—and worry to-morrowLet’s see that TO-DAY is worth while.

[First published in the Pleiades Club Year Book (New York, 1912), 58]