What Have We Done Today?

We shall do so much in the years to come

But what have we done to­day?

We shall give our gold in a prince­ly sum

But what did we give to­day?

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 to­day?

We shall be so kind in the af­ter-while

But what have we been to­day?

We shall bring to each lone­ly life a smile

But what have we brought to­day?

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 to­day?

We shall reap such joys in the by and by

But what have we sown to­day?

We shall build us man­sions in the sky

But what have we built to­day?

’Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask

But here and now do we do our task?

Yes

this is the thing our souls must ask—

O

what have we done to­day?