LORD, what I once had done with youthful might,
Had I been from the first true to the truth,
Grant me, now old, to do--with better sight,
And humbler heart, if not the brain of youth;
So wilt thou, in thy gentleness and ruth,
Lead back thy old soul, by the path of pain,
Round to his best--young eyes and heart and brain.
-excerpt from The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
Honeysuckle
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I smelt it yesterday in a viney hedge.
Today I see its blooms, white and yellow.
It pulls me into childhood, into memory.
So I pick a yellow one, squee...
3 days ago
Beautiful quote!
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