If We Had But a Day by Mary Lowe Dickinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 23, 1910

If We Had But a Day

By Mary Lowe Dickinson

We should fill the hours with the sweetest things, If we had but a day; We should drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way; We should love with a lifetime’s love in an hour, If the hours were few; We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do.

We should waste no moments in vain regret, If the day were but one; If what we remember, and what we forget, Went out with the sun, We should be from our clamorous selves set free To work or to pray, And to be what the Father would have us be,— If we had but a day.

— Mary Lowe Dickinson.