Marie Antoinette born 1755.
Field-Marshal Radetzky born 1766.
James Knox Polk, North Carolina, eleventh President
United States, born 1795.
Overmastering pain--the most deadly and tragical element in
life--alas! pain has its own way with all of us; it breaks in, a
rude visitant, upon the fairy garden where the child wanders in a
dream, no less surely than it rules upon the field of battle, or
sends the immortal war-god whimpering to his father; and innocence,
no more than philosophy, can protect us from this sting.
--Robert Louis Stevenson.
My hopes retire; my wishes as before
Struggle to find their resting place in vain;
The ebbing sea thus beats against the shore;
The shore repels it; it returns again.
--W.S. Landor.
Yet Jehovah will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, And in
the night his song shall be with me.
--Psalm 42. 8.
Loving Father, I bless thee for thy goodness and tender mercy which is
over all. May I trust thy provision and love through all
circumstances, and as I trust myself to thee may I have faith to
believe that thou wilt give me strength for what I may have to endure,
and believe that thou wilt care for me, as thou dost care for all.
Amen.