Marathon Library...in the Heart of the Florida Keys: Accelerated Reading List—by grade level

"Count That Day As Lost" by George Eliot

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went—
Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day,
You’ve cheered no heart, by yea, or nay—
If, through it all
You’ve nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face—
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost—
Then count that day as worst than lost.

Remember: How you handle Today determines your Tomorrows.