89.

Jane Baillie Welch Carlyle born 1801.

Owen Wister born 1860.

Sail fast, sail fast,
Ark of my hopes, Ark of my dreams;
Sweep lordly o'er the drowned Past,
Fly glittering through the sun's strange beams;
Sail fast, sail fast.
Breath of new buds from off some drying lea,
With news about the Future scent the sea;
My brain is beating like the heart of Haste.
I'll loose me a bird upon this Present waste;
Go, trembling song,
And stay not long; O, stay not long;
Thou art only a gray and sober dove,
But thine eye is faith and thy wing is love.

--Sidney Lanier.

God speed thee, pretty bird; may thy small nest,
With little ones all in good time be blest.
I love thee much;
For well thou managest that life of thine,
Well I!--O ask not what I do with mine!
Would I were such!

--Jane Welch Carlyle.

Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are not ye of much more value than they?

--Matthew 6. 26.

My Father, may I start this day with more faith in myself and greater
love for thy world. May my soul be awakened to the highest and be
ready for the joys of to-day. Amen.

JULY FIFTEENTH

Inigo Jones born 1573.

Rembrandt born 1607.

Henry Edward Manning born 1808.

William Winter born 1836.

His was the heart that overmuch
In human goodness puts its trust,
And his the keen, satiric touch
That shrivels falsehood into dust.

Fierce for the right, he bore his part
In strife with many a valiant foe;
But laughter winged his polished dart,
And kindness tempered every blow.

--William Winter.

A wise man will so act that whatever he does may rather seem
voluntary and of his own free will than done by compulsion, however
much he may be compelled by necessity.

--Machiavelli.

Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should
rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring
him back to see what shall be after him?

--Ecclesiastes 3. 22.

Lord God, may I not forget that it is in the light, and not the
darkness, that my work is revealed. I beseech thee to pour in thy
light as I plan my life, and open my heart and mind for the reception
of thy truth. Amen.

JULY SIXTEENTH