JUST FOR TODAY


by: Sybil F. Partridge


Lord, for tomorrow and its needs,
I do not pray:
Keep me, my God, from stain of sin,
Just for today:
Let me so wrong or idle word
Unthinking say:
Set Thou a seal upon my lips,
Just for today.

Let me both diligently work,
And duly pray:
Let me be kind in word and deed,
Just for today:
Let me in season, Lord, be grave
In season, gay:
Let me be faithful to Thy grace
Just for today.

In pain and sorrow's cleansing fires,
Brief be my stay:
Oh, bid me if to-day I die,
Come home to-day:
So,for to-morrow and its needs,
I do not pray:
But keep me, guide me, love me, Lord,
Just for a day.


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