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<h2>LET US MAKE EACH DAY OUR BIRTHDAY.</h2>
<p>Let us make each day our birthday,</p>
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As with each new dawn we rise,</p>
<p>To the glory and the gladness</p>
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Of God's calm, o'erbending skies;</p>
<p>To the soul-uplifting anthems</p>
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Of Creation's swelling strains,</p>
<p>Chanted by the towering mountains,</p>
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Surging sea, and sweeping plains.</p>
<p>Let us make each day our birthday—</p>
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Every morning life is new,</p>
<p>With the splendors of the sunrise,</p>
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And the baptism of the dew;</p>
<p>With the glisten of the woodlands,</p>
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And the radiance of the flowers,</p>
<p>And the birds' exultant matins,</p>
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In the young day's wakening hours.</p>
<p>Let us make each day our birthday,</p>
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To a newer, holier life,</p>
<p>Rousing to some high endeavor,</p>
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Arming for a nobler strife,</p>
<p>Toiling upward, looking Godward,</p>
<p>Lest our poor lives be as discords,</p>
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In Heaven's symphony of love.</p>
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