If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went –
Then you may count that day well spent
But if, though all the livelong day,
You’ve cheered no heart, by yea or nay –
![Count that Day Lost [Illustration by Anup Singh]](/media/poems-50_1.gif)
If, through it all
You’ve nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face –
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost –
Then count that day as worse than lost.
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