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I know it is early morning, / And hope is calling aloud, / And your heart is afire with Youth's desire / To hurry along with the crowd. / But linger a bit by the roadside, / And lend a hand by the way, / 'Tis a curious fact that a generous act / Brings leisure and luck to a day.
I know it is only the noontime- / There is chance enough to be kind; / But the hours run fast when noon has passed, / And the shadows are close behind. / So think while the light is shining, / And act ere the set of the sun, / For the sorriest woe that a soul can know / Is to think what it might have done.
I know it is almost evening, / But the twilight hour is long. / If you listen and heed each cry of need / You can right full many a wrong. / For when we have finished the journey / We will all look back and say: / ‘On life's long mile there was nothing worth while / But the good we did by the way. '