The Salutation of the Dawn

Listen to the exhortation of the dawn!
Look to this day! For it is life,
    The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the varieties
And realities of your existence.
    The bliss of growth,
    The glory of action,
    The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
    But today well lived
Makes every yesterday a dream of
    happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn.

       ~ from the Sanskrit