p. 9 | What Have We Done To-day? by Nixon Waterman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 25, 1909

What Have We Done To-day?

By Nixon Waterman

WE shall do so much in the years to come; But what have we done to-day?

We shall give our gold in a princely sum; But what did we give to-day?

We shall lift the heart and dry the tear, We shall plant a hope in the place of fear, We shall speak the words of love and cheer; But what did we speak to-day?

We shall be so kind in the afterwhile; But what have we been to-day?

We shall bring each lonely life a smile; But what have we brought to-day?

We shall give to truth a grander birth, And to steadfast faith a deeper worth, We shall feed the hungering souls of earth; But whom have we fed to-day?

We shall reap such joys in the by-and-by; But what have we sown to-day?

We shall build us mansions in the sky; But what have we built to-day?

'Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask, But here and now do we our task? Yes, this is the thing our souls must ask: “What have we done to-day?”

— Nixon Waterman.