The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

July 5

Thou art hampered in thy natural working then

When beings designed on freedom's holy plan

Will not be free: with thy poor, foolish men,

Thou therefore hast to work just like a man.

But when, tangling thyself in their sore need,

Thou hast to freedom fashioned them indeed,

Then wilt thou grandly move, and Godlike speed.