The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

July 14

Help me, my Father, in whatever dismay,

Whatever terror in whatever shape,

To hold the faster by thy garment's hem;

When my heart sinks, oh, lift it up, I pray;

Thy child should never fear though hell should gape,

Not blench though all the ills that men affray

Stood round him like the Roman round Jerusalem.