If I today a ray of light have shed,
From my small lamp have thrown some beams ahead;
If hope I've given to some despairing one,
Taught him to trust before the set of sun;
If Truth I've shown to one whose eyes were blind,
If to the poor and weak I have been kind,
If I have loved my neighbor as I should,
For evil given sent him naught but good;
If I have watched each moment at my heart,
And bade all unkind, sin-filled thought depart;
If I've returned a smile for every frown,
Knowing that evil could not cast me down,—
Then I indeed can lay me down to sleep
, Secure that Love divine the watch will keep.
