Today Poem by Thomas Carlyle
Today
So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.
Out of Eternity
This new Day is born;
Into Eternity,
At night, will return.
Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.
I read this marvelous poem in my high school days in Korea. It was in our English textbook. Especially, the second stanza, Out of Eternity/This new Day is born; /Into Eternity, /At night, /will return., has been remained in my memory, perhaps forever. Today, after 65 years, here, I visited this poem again.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/22/2024 1:36:56 PM # 1.0.0.1119
When my children woke up grouchy, I would recite this poem. Of course they rolled their eyes. However, it seemed to start the day off on a better foot.