Where is Yesterday?
A little boy, Ernst H——, says to his Mother : ‘ This is
to-day—To-morrow is coming; but, Where is Yester-
day ?’
to-day—To-morrow is coming; but, Where is Yester-
day ?’
‘ Mother ! some things I want to know,1
Which puzzle and confuse me so.2
To-day is present, as you say ;3
But tell me, Where is Yesterday ?4
‘ I did not see it as it went ;5
I only know how it was spent—6
In play, and pleasure, though in rain ;7
Then why won’t it come back again ?8
‘ To-day, the sun shines bright and clear ;9
But then, To-morrow’s drawing near.10
To-day—oh, do not go away !11
And vanish like dear Yesterday.12
‘ ’Tis when the sun and all the light13
Has gone, and darkness brings the night,14
It seems to me, you steal away,15
And change your name to Yesterday.16
‘ And will all Time be just the same ?17
To-day—the only name remain ?18
And shall I always have to say,19
To-morrow, you’ll be Yesterday ?20
‘ I wonder, when we go to heaven,21
If there a record will be given22
Of all our thoughts and all our ways,23
Writ on the face of Yesterdays
?24
‘ If so, I pray, God grant to me25
That mine a noble life may be ;26
For then, I’ll greet with joyous gaze27
The dear, lost face of—Yesterdays.’28