NOVEMBER EIGHTH
Reading edition
Edmund Halley born 1656.
John Milton died 1674.
Owen Meredith (Bulwer Edward Lytton) born 1831.
The morning drum-call on my eager ear Thrills unforgotten yet! the morning dew Lies yet undried along my field of noon. But now I pause a while in what I do, And count the bell, and tremble lest I hear (My work untrimmed) the sunset gun too soon. —Robert Louis Stevenson.
I fear Life's many changes, not Death's changelessness. So perfect is this moment's passing cheer, I needs must tremble lest it pass to less. Thus in fickle love of life I live, Lest fickle life me of my love deprive. —Owen Meredith.
And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow.
—Joshua 7. 10, 13.
Almighty God, help me in these fleeting days that I may not use my time to consider and hesitate, but be positive in my desires and pursue them. Grant that I may have the strength to hold each day precious, and live it more than consistently. Amen.