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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Awake! arise!  Cast off thy drowsy dreams!
Red in the East, behold the Morning gleams.
“As Monday goes, so goes the week,” dames say.
Refreshed, renewed, use well the initial day.
      And see! thy neighbour
   Already seeks his labour.

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From Poems of Cheer | Gay and Hancock, 1914

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