The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

July 4

Master, thou workest with such common things—

Low souls, weak hearts, I mean—and hast to use,

Therefore, such common means and rescuings,

That hard we find it, as we sit and muse,

To think thou workest in us verily:

Bad sea-boats we, and manned with wretched crews—

That doubt the captain, watch the storm-spray flee.