The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

February 14

My soul must unawares have sunk awry.

Some care, poor eagerness, ambition of work,

Some old offence that unforgiving did lurk,

Or some self-gratulation, soft and sly—

Something not thy sweet will, not the good part,

While the home-guard looked out, stirred up the old murk,

And so I gloomed away from thee, my Heart.