September 27
Companions of the Way (Morning)Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
GOD in His heart made Autumn for the young; That they might learn to accept the approach of age
In golden woods and starry saxifrage, And valleys all with azure mists o'erhung.
For over Death a radiant veil He flung, That thus the inevitable heritage Might come revealed in beauty, and assuage The dread with which the heart in youth is wrung.
And for the consolation of the old He made the delicate, swift, tumultuous Spring; That every year they might again behold The image of their youth in everything,
A. M. F. ROBINSON And bless the fruit-trees flowering in the cold Whose harvest is not for their gathering.
TIME'S CHANGES