| The Beauty of Self Control |
Chapter 15 |
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Another meaning of this description – “psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” – is that our lives should be joyous. God wants them to be songs. He wants them to be pure, sweet, gentle, and kind. A child asked Charles Kingsley to write in her album, and he wrote these lines:
“My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe in skies so dull and grey;
Yet, if you will, one quiet hint I’ll give you
For every day.
“I’ll tell you how to sing a clearer carol
Than lark who hails the dawn or breezy down;
To earn yourself a purer poet’s laurel
Than Shakespeare’s crown.
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who can, be clever;
Do lovely things, not dream them all day long;
And so make life and death, and the vast for ever
One grand, sweet song.”
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