At sunrise every soul is born again.

Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped,

To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb;

My judgment seal the dead past with its dead,

But never bind a moment yet to come.

Tho deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep:

I lend my arm to all who say, “I can!”

No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep,

But yet might rise and be again a man.

Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast?