Count That Day Lost

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, Through All The Livelong Day,

You've Cheered No Heart, By Yea Or Nay --

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.