The Diary of an Old Soul

Daily Readings by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)

February 20

Help me to yield my will, in labour even,

Nor toil on toil, greedy of doing, heap—

Fretting I cannot more than me is given;

That with the finest clay my wheel runs slow,

Nor lets the lovely thing the shapely grow;

That memory what thought gives it cannot keep,

And nightly rimes ere morn like cistus-petals go.