Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.

The line captures a familiar moral insight: the habit of postponing fulfillment or reform to “tomorrow” is self-defeating, because the promised day of change continually recedes. “Tomorrow” functions less as a real time than as a psychological refuge—an imagined future in which effort, courage, or decision will somehow be easier. By stressing that tomorrow will feel “as distant then as ’tis today,” the speaker exposes procrastination as a form of self-deception and urges attention to the present as the only moment in which action is possible. The sentiment aligns with early modern moral and devotional writing that warns against delay in love, repentance, or duty.