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Title: Daily Thoughts
selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife

Author: Charles Kingsley

Editor: Fanny Kingsley

Release Date: February 28, 2007 [eBook #20711]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1885 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

DAILY THOUGHTS

Selected from the Writings
OF
CHARLES KINGSLEY

BY HIS WIFE

SECOND EDITION

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1885

_Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_.

_This little Volume_, _selected from the MS. Note-books_, _Sermons and
Private Letters_, _as well as from the published Works of my Husband_,
_is dedicated to our children_, _and to all who feel the blessing of his
influence on their daily life and thought_.

_F. E. K._

_July_ 10, 1884.

January.

Welcome, wild North-easter!
Shame it is to see
Odes to every zephyr:
Ne'er a verse to thee.
. . . . .
Tired we are of summer,
Tired of gaudy glare,
Showers soft and steaming,
Hot and breathless air.
Tired of listless dreaming
Through the lazy day:
Jovial wind of winter
Turn us out to play!
Sweep the golden reed-beds;
Crisp the lazy dyke;
Hunger into madness
Every plunging pike.
Fill the lake with wild-fowl;
Fill the marsh with snipe;
While on dreary moorlands
Lonely curlew pipe.
Through the black fir forest
Thunder harsh and dry,
Shattering down the snow-flakes
Off the curdled sky.
. . . . .
Come; and strong within us
Stir the Viking's blood;
Bracing brain and sinew:
Blow, thou wind of God!

_Ode to North-east Wind_.

New Year's Day. January 1. {3}

Gather you, gather you, angels of God--
Freedom and Mercy and Truth;
Come! for the earth is grown coward and old;
Come down and renew us her youth.
Wisdom, Self-sacrifice, Daring, and Love,
Haste to the battlefield, stoop from above,
To the day of the Lord at hand!

_The Day of the Lord_. 1847.

The Nineteenth Century. Janu