Robert Fielding died 1712.
James Sheridan Knowles born 1784.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti born 1828.
Jules Massenet born 1842.
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea-shell
Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's, but by my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
Of ultimate things unuttered the frail screen.
--Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Let me not pass my work at morn
And then at eve,
Find for what purpose I was born--
Just as I leave.
--M.B.S.
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.
--John 9. 4.
Lord God, I do earnestly pray that thou wilt give me strength to break
away, if I may be trying to free myself from habits that mar my
character. May I not lose courage and fall back in the old ways, but
by faith be led where I should go. Amen.