March 3

The Lord thy God will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in His love. He will joy over thee with singing.

FOR, ah! who can express How full of bonds and simpleness

Is God;

How narrow is He,

And how the wide, waste field of possibility

Is only trod

Straight to His homestead in the human heart;

Whose thoughts but live and move

Round Man; Who woos his will

To wedlock with His own, and does distil

To that drop's span

The attar of all rose-fields of all love!

COVENTRY PATMORE

THE HEART SPEAKS