"Let me today 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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Morning Prayer"
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