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Not to the present is our hour confined, The great and shadowy future is assigned To be the glorious empire of the mind.

The past was once the future, and it wrought In the high presence of on-looking thought; All that we have, was by its efforts brought.

To-day creates to-morrow, and the tree Of good or ill grows in past hours, what we Make for the future—certain is to be.