596. Count That Day Lost by George Eliot

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) read by Classic Poetry Aloud:

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Count That Day Lost by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 – 1880)

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went - Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day, You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay - If, through it all You've nothing done that you can trace That brought the sunshine to one face- No act most small That helped some soul and nothing cost - Then count that day as worse than lost.

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