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.

MAY THIRTEENTH

Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linne) born 1707.

Alphonse Daudet born 1840.

Sir Arthur Sullivan born 1842.

    I heard a voice in the darkness singing
      (That was a valiant soul I knew),
    And the joy of his song was a wild bird winging
      Swift to his mate through a sky of blue.

    And his song was of love and all its bringing
      And of certain day when the night was through;
    I raised my eyes where the hope was springing,
      And I think in his heaven God smiled too
      (That was a valiant soul I knew).

    —­J.  Stalker.

    The soul aids the body, and at certain moments raises it.  It is the
    only bird which bears upward its own cage.

    —­Victor Hugo.

    But desire earnestly the greater gifts.

    —­1 Corinthians 12. 31.

Gracious Lord, I rejoice that thou dost know the depths of my soul, and that I may call upon thee to supply its needs.  Make me worthy that I may not be kept from the springs of joy where my soul may be refreshed, and where I may gather hope and encouragement for the greater loves of life.  Amen.

MAY FOURTEENTH

John Dutton born 1659.

Gabriel D. Fahrenheit born 1686.

Robert Owen born 1771.

Henry Grattan died 1820.

    They that wander at will where the
      Works of the Lord are revealed,
    Little guess what joy can be got
      From a cowslip out of the field.

    —­Alfred Tennyson.

    Move onward serenely, cast aside regret, cleanse and purify life,
    only be undismayed and hopeful, as you turn page after page of the
    revelation of God.