PAST AND PRESENT.
Let us now improve the present,
Waiting not for something more;
For the past is gone forever
And its troubles all are o’er.
Let us hope not in the future
Golden days will be at hand;
Try, keep trying, for that country,
In a fairer, better land.
Up, be doing in the present,
Waiting not for something more;
For the past is gone forever
And its troubles all are o’er.
Those who wait are ne’er receiving—
Those who act are always blest;
Up, be doing, still be acting,
This is not a time for rest.
Let us now improve the present,
Waiting not for something more;
For the past is gone forever
And its troubles all are o’er.
GONE TO REST.
Little Ada now has gone
To that land above,
Where no trouble ever comes;
All is brightness, all is love.
Now an angel far away
In that land of light;
Cheer up, oh, afflicted ones,
She is gone where all is bright.