Today Is Ours

Today is ours--with chance to smile

And make the day a day worth while,

To speak kind words of hope and cheer

To those cast down with care and fear;

To check the frowns that only mar

And leave upon our brow their scar.

Our trivial ills will come to nought
If other's sorrows claim our thought.
Today is ours to boldly dare

To meet our justice and be fair

In all our dealings--all we say.

Now is our hour, now our day.

Only today we call our own;

Today is ours, and today alone.

         --Laura Harney Rathbone