Whatever must be done,

Thou hast no time to lose in sloth,

Thy day will soon be gone.

Make haste, O man! to live.

To breathe, and wake, and sleep,

To smile, to sigh, to grieve,

To move in idleness through earth,

This, this is not to live.

Make haste, O man! to live.

The useful, not the great;