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Wednesday April 9-24 Home. O, there's a wind a blowing, a blowing from the west. And that, of all winds, is the one I like the best. For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennons freeAnd it soon will blow us Hometo the old countreeFor to Home, dearie - Home- it's Home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green - in the old countree.
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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-knots of the angels. Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I know not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight ------------- I breathed a song into the air It fell to earth, I knew not where, For who has sight so keen & strong, That it can follow the flight of song? ------------------- Long, long afterward in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke, And the song from beginning to end I found in the heart of a friend. -----------------------------------
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Thursday April 10-24
In wonder workings - or some bush - a flame Men look for God, and fancy him concealed. But in earth's common things He stands revealed While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name.
April 25 - 24 Friday Dear Dairy I never was so desperatly tired in all my life & I hope never to feel so worn out again. I am still in charge of Wd 1X and the wonder is that I have any senses left. Last Monday Mable Kelly came on the ward - and still I
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Monday Feb 9 - 1925 Dear dairy It is almost a whole year since we were last written. But now with Graduation so near - we will just make sure of keeping you up to day. I am on Night Duty on Ward A. again. But not likely for very long this time. Have named two babies satisfactorily the dearest boy - Donald Mackenzie Niles - and the weenest girl Dorothy Mae Bailiff. Last night I had dinner with Miss Childs. In fact I went up for breakfast and slept all day. Went to Church in P.M.