CARPE DIEM.

(Seize the day.)

Seize the day, beyond returning
It will vanish into night,

While unstilled remains the yearning
In thy bosom for the light.

Art thou but an aimless wavelet
Rising on life's sullen sea?

Or a steward wise of moments
Borrowed from Eternity?

Opportunities move swiftly,

Whence and whither? Who can say? But an inborn voice e'er prompts thee: "Passing pilgrim, seize the day!

Cam'st to earth a matchless spirit,
Finding duties all thine own,

To the temple of the ages
Aim to add thy little stone!"

-Andreas Bard.

CONTENTS.

I. The Dawn of To-Morrow...

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II. The Gospel of Omar Khayyam.... 29

III. The Science of Good Cheer..

IV. The Light That Failed.

V. The Beauty of Holiness..

VI. The Market-Value of Man..

VII. Harp and Javelin

VIII. The Age of Reconstruction..

IX. The Still, Small Voice...

X. All's Law, Yet All's Love.

XI. The Man and His Shadow.

XII. Through a Glass Darkly.

XIII. An Appeal to Reason.

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