And a rather lovely poem I heard for the first time yesterday. Very fitting with all the Be Kind memes.
Count That Day Lost
George Eliot
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.
5 comments:
It’s perfect for these times! Thank you for sharing.
Good poem!
Eliot wrote some good stuff!
But then, so did Philip Karkin
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse)
a beautiful honest expression :)
self analyzing is most difficult task
only those can do who have dare to identify and rearrange their errors
blessings!
Yes, a lovely poem… but don't you still, even after all these weeks of staying at home being good, just occasionally still want to run down the road shouting loudly and banging a drum?
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