Work and Duty. January 17
If a man is busy, and busy about his duty, what more does he require for time or for eternity?
Chalk Stream Studies. 1856.
Members of Christ. January 18
... Would you be humble, daughter?
You must look up, not down, and see yourself
A paltry atom, sap-transmitting vein
Of Christ’s vast vine; the pettiest joint and member
Of His great body....
... Let thyself die—
And dying, rise again to fuller life.
To be a whole is to be small and weak—
To be a part is to be great and mighty
In the one spirit of the mighty whole—
The spirit of the martyrs and the saints.
Saint’s Tragedy, Act ii. Scene vi.
1847.