Hast thou not seen, impatient boy! Hast thou not read the solemn truth, That gray experience writes for giddy youth On every mortal joy? Pleasure must be dash’d with pain: And yet with heedless haste, The thirsty boy repeats the… Continue Reading
It is National Poetry Month. I love to read poetry and I love to write it. I’m not sure I am all that good at either but it’s still a joy that I have. John Newton used to write a… Continue Reading
“All the delights in the sensual life are but as the putrid waters of a corrupt pond where toads lie croaking and spawning, compared to the crystal streams of the most pure and pleasant fountain.” –John Flavel, The Method of… Continue Reading