“The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday’s errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterday’s wounds, which smarted and bled,
Are healed with the healing that night has shed.”

New Every Morning, (date of publication uncertain).

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writer 1835–1905

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