It Is Time

It is time to be brave. It is time to be true.
It is time to be finding the thing you can do.
It is time to put by the dream and the sigh,
And work for the cause that is holy and high.

It is time to be kind. It is time to be sweet,
To be scattering roses for somebody's feet.
It is time to be sowing. It is time to be growing.
It is time for the flowers of life to be blowing.

It is time to be lowly and humble of heart.
It is time for the lilies of meekness to start;
For the heart to be white, and the steps to be right,
And the hands to be weaving a garment of light.

It is time. It is time. Oh! how soon 'twill be past,
The precious life-hours are flitting so fast,
And the angel of doom shall announce through the gloom,
"Eternity strikes, and time's web leaves the loom".

Oh! rouse then, my soul. Be no sluggard. Away
To the labor that waits for thy toiling to-day;
That when the clocks chime, with their ringing sublime,
God may say, "Time is past, but eternity's thine."
  -By Fannie Bolton

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