May 11
Companions of the Way (Morning)Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children.
Children's children are the crown of old men.
YES! through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share; planting, with a cheerful good-humour, the acorns they carry about with them, that their grandchildren may be shaded from the sun by the broad oak-trees of the future. That is Nature's way of easing death to us.
WALTER PATER, Marius the Epicurcan
OLD AGE