Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth
The glory of action,
The splendor of achievemnent
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
Kalidasa
For my high school graduation, the Mixed Chorus sang a musical arrangement of Salutation to the Dawn.
As chorus members had to memorize the lyrics, I have never forgotten the words; I have to look the total verse
up now and then, but I always found the message meaningful. More than fifty years later, "today well-lived"
is a mantra for living.
