MAY TWELFTH
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Robert Fielding died 1712.
James Sheridan Knowles born 1784.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti born 1828.
Jules Massenet born 1842.
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell; Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea-shell Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between; Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen Which had Life's form and Love's, but by my spell Is now a shaken shadow intolerable, Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Let me not pass my work at morn And then at eve, Find for what purpose I was born— Just as I leave. —M. B. S.
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
—John 9. 4.
Lord God, I do earnestly pray that thou wilt give me strength to break away, if I may be trying to free myself from habits that mar my character. May I not lose courage and fall back in the old ways, but by faith be led where I should go. Amen.