How clear, how lovely bright
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
How heaven laughs out with glee
Where, like a bird set free
Up from the eastern sea
Soars the delightful day

To-day I shall be strong
No more shall yield to wrong
Shall squander life no more;
Days lost, I know not how
I shall retrieve them now;
Now I shall keep the vow
I never kept before

Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day