Rejoicing in the Birth of Today

Oh, beauty of a newborn day

The old is folded, done away

We rise to see the east beget

What none have soiled or mangled yet

Ah, holy ground, virgin the sweep

Of moments hailing from yon deep

Offspring of heaven’s womb, gold-gray

In beauty of a newborn day

Oh, Duty, surely we are blessed

To bear the scepter of life’s best

Where God graces time’s common tray

With beauty of a newborn day

…and all that He requires then

Is that we try and try again

For yester’s old is done away

In the beauty of newborn day

Where God saw fit to extend thus

Time’s Little Bit to all of us

Dare we then, to forget to pray

And thank Him for this newborn day?

© Janet Martin

This newborn day is shaping up to be a scorcher! I better go out to the garden before it gets too hot. I'm hoping its duties include doing  sweet corn if its ready because tomorrow my help goes back to school!

Happy Labor Day to all!
Aren't you humbly glad we have work to labor at...
...to enjoy its sense of worth?!