• With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host. Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey Your wish and will. Since time began Today has been the friend of man. But in his blindness and his sorrow He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox: With every rising of the sun 
Think of your life as just begun. 
The past has shrived and buried deep 
All yesterdays— there let them sleep, 
Nor seek to summon back one ghost 
Of that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but today; 
Woo it and teach it to obey 
Your wish and will. Since time began 
Today has been the friend of man. 
But in his blindness and his sorrow 
He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
    "Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox".