Who wrote the following?
Live for some earnest purpose,
Live for some noble life
Live for the hearts that love you
Live that you conquer strife
Live that the world may find you
Honest and pure of thought
Live though it frown upon you
Live as a true man ought
What does it matter brother
If in the race of fame
One gains a gilded carriage
Another a poor man’s name?
Life’s but a little season
Not but a passing cloud
One day it lives in sunshine
The next the winding shroud
Be ye then Jew or Gentile
Ask not the other’s creed
For if a flower be spotless
Care ye where grow the seed?
Live for one true purpose
That honest hearts may rise
Work through the noon of labour
And when the evening dies
There need be no forebodings
Angels will close thine eyes..

William John Warner, who (according to Wikipedia) was also know as Cheiro.
The poem was printed in June 1897 of The Eastern Star, Indianapolis, IN, Vol. 10, p. 35. It can also be found in If We Only Knew, published in 1918 by Harvard College Library, The Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell (Class of 1882).