By-and-By | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 7, 1871

BY-AND-BY.

There's a little mischief-making Elf who is ever nigh, Thwarting every undertaking, And his name is By-and-By. What we ought to do this minute “Will be better done,” he'll cry, “If to-morrow we begin it: Put it off,” says By-and-By.

Those who heed his treacherous wooing Will his faithful guidance rue; What we always put off doing, Clearly we shall never do; We shall reach what we endeavor If on Now we more rely; But unto the realms of Never Leads the pilot By-and-By.