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Let me to-day do something that shall take / A little sadness from 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 foe or 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 hearts to find. / Let 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. "