The day is done.

And I, alas! have wrought no good,

Performed no worthy task of thought or deed.

Albeit small my power, and great my need,

I have not done the little that I could.

With shame o’er forfeit hours I brood,—

The day is done.

I can not tell!

What good I might have done this day

Of thought or deed that still, when I am gone,