Ann Lawrence (Ann Lawrence-Lucas), "Procrastination" (1924)
Why wait for tomorrow
To shed sun shine on the way?
Why wait to lighten sorrows,
For the coming of a day?
Why wait for a confessing,
Of a wrong that you have done?
Go and receive a blessing,
'Ere the setting of the sun.
While Yesterday was once Today,
For Joy, or for Sorrow;
We do not know, we cannot say-
To-day will be To-morrow!
Published in The Messenger, October 1924