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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.
By George Eliot
George Eliot is a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross, who was born on 22 November 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She became a novelist and a poet. She is known for her novel “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872), among others. She was married to J. W. Cross in 1880. Mary Anne Evans passed on at 61 years of age on 22 December 1880 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Middlesex, England.
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.
By George Eliot
George Eliot is a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross, who was born on 22 November 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She became a novelist and a poet. She is known for her novel “Middlemarch” (1871 - 1872), among others. She was married to J. W. Cross in 1880. Mary Anne Evans passed on at 61 years of age on 22 December 1880 in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Middlesex, England.
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