September 5.

September 6.

The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill,
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warm, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light.

Poems of Imagination.

Queen Elizabeth, 1533. Earl of Leicester, 1533.

September 8.

Even such a shell the Universe itself
Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,
I doubt not, when to you it doth impart
Authentic tidings of invisible things;
Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power;
And central peace, subsisting at the heart
Of endless agitation.

Ariosto, 1474.

September 9.

I have felt

The Excursion.

A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts-a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
Poems of Imagination.

Archbishop Trench, 1807.

September 8.

September 9.

Often would he leave his home And journey far, revisiting the scenes That to his memory were most endeared. Vigorous in health, of hopeful spirits, undamped By worldly-mindedness or anxious care; Observant, studious, thoughtful, and refreshed By knowledge gathered up from day to day; Thus had he lived a long and innocent life. Mungo Park, 1771.

September 11.

The Excursion.

While yet a child, and long before his time,
Had he perceived the presence and the power
Of greatness. A precious gift he had received.
Nor did he fail,

While yet a child, with a child's eagerness
Incessantly to turn his ear and eye

On all things which the moving seasons brought. James Thomson, 1700.

September 12.

The food of Hope

The Excursion.

Is meditated action; robbed of this,
Her sole support, she languishes and dies.
We perish also; for we live by hope
And by desire: we see by the glad light
And breathe the sweet air of futurity;
And so we live, or else we have no life.
Sir Wm. Dugdale, 1605.

The Excursion.

September 11.

September 12.