To-Day and Yesterday
Ethel
Ireland
Ireland, Ethel
E. I.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poet attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Miss E. Ireland, of 9 Leicester St, Southport,
was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/370). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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7
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Life is not lived by days nor yet by years ;
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To-Day and Yesterda
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Life is not lived by days nor yet by years ;
These come and go, or haply, sometimes stay,
As Time his changes rings ; and if To-day
Lingers relentlessly when fraught with fears,
If perfect harmonies and smiles it hears
In one short moment—Lo ! ’tis Yesterday.
And reverently the joy or pain we lay
Safe in the Past’s dear shrine with unshed tears.
So, when the deepest chords of Life vibrate
And quiver ’neath the master-hand of Pain
Or Ecstasy, our quickened breath we bate,
And listen, hoping that perchance some strain
Of heaven’s own music soothe, ere ’tis too late,
The troubled waters of Life’s boundless main.
E. I.