The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

December 12

Give me a world, to part for praise and sunder.

The brooks be bells; the winds, in caverns dumb,

Wake fife and flute and flageolet and voice;

The fire-shook earth itself be the great drum;

And let the air the region's bass out thunder;

The firs be violins; the reeds hautboys;

Rivers, seas, icebergs fill the great score up and under!