If You Can Sit At Set of Sun

Here's the poem I used in my speech last week for the Volunteer Luncheon at SageEldercare:

If you can sit at set of sun and count the deeds that you have done and counting find
One self-denying act, one word that eased the heart of him that heard, one glance most kind
Which fell like sunshine where he went, then you can count that day well spent!

But, if all the livelong day you've cheered no heart, by yea or nay, if through it all you've nothing
done that you can trace that brought the sunshine to one face, no act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost, then you can count that day as worse than lost.
Robert Browning