A WASTED DAY by Christian Alliance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 44.

A WASTED DAY.

By Christian Alliance

THE day is gone, And I, alas! have wrought no good, Performed no worthy task of thought or deed; Albeit small my power and great my need, I have not done the little that I could. With shame o'er forfeit hours I brood,— The day is done.

'One step behind, One step through all eternity— Thus much to lack of what I might have been, Because the temptress of my life stole in, And wrapt a golden day away from me. My highest height can never be,— One step behind.

I cannot tell What good I might have done, this day, Of thought or deed, that still, when I am gone, And long, long years gone singing on and on, Like some sweet fountain by the dusty way, Perhaps some word that God would say,— I cannot tell!

O life of light, That goest out, I know not where, Beyond night's silent and mysterious shore, To write thy record there forevermore, Take on thy shining wings a hope, a prayer, That henceforth I unfaltering fare Toward life and light. —Christian Alliance.