The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

July 20

"Dear presence every hour"!—what of the night,

When crumpled daisies shut gold sadness in;

And some do hang the head for lack of light,

Sick almost unto death with absence-blight?—

Thy memory then, warm-lingering in the ground,

Mourned dewy in the air, keeps their hearts sound,

Till fresh with day their lapsed life begin.