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I will be glad all day for this cool draught And the clear drops I dash upon my brow; For the fresh glint of sunlight on the tree And the bird singing on the bough. I will be glad for that stored strength of life Which lasts the day because the spirit wills; For the live air that wings from far and breathes The vigor of the everlasting hills. What scope of toil, what loss or what reward, I do not know. It is enough that now I pledge the day's good cheer with this cool draught And the drops dashed upon my brow.
I will be glad all day for this cool draught And the clear drops I dash upon my brow; For the fresh glint of sunlight on the tree And the bird singing on the bough. I will be glad for that stored strength of life Which lasts the day because the spirit wills; For the live air that wings from far and breathes The vigor of the everlasting hills. What scope of toil, what loss or what reward, I do not know. It is enough that now I pledge the day's good cheer with this cool draught And the drops dashed upon my brow.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Charles P. Cleaves
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 241; printed byline: Charles P. Cleaves; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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