Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall

SELWICK HALL, LAKE DERWENTWATER, OCTOBER YE FIRST, MDLXXIX. It came about, as I have oft noted things to do, after a metely deal of talk, yet right suddenly in the end.

One may love one's friends, and must one's enemies, _Father_ saith. But how should one feel towards them that be nowise enemies, for they mean right kindly, and yet not friends,...

SELWICK HALL, NOVEMBER YE FIRST. Things be alway going awry with me. Elsewise, this jolly book should ne'er have come into my hands first of a _Sunday_. I would love dearly to r...

"I thought that I was strong, Lord, And did not need Thine arm; Though dangers thronged around me, My heart felt no alarm: I thought I nothing needed-- Riches, nor dress, nor si...

SELWICK HALL, DECEMBER THE FIRST. I would have fain let be the records of this sad first day that this chronicle is come to mine hand. But _Father_ and _Mother_ do desire me to...

"Then opened wide the baron's hall To vassal, tenant, serf, and all; All hailed with uncontrolled delight, And general voice, the happy night That to the cottage, as the crown,...

SELWICK HALL, JANUARY YE IV. Dear heart, but I ne'er thought our _Edith_ should have filled so much paper! Yet it doth seem me she is more livelier at writing than at household...

"On all the sweet smile falleth Of Him who loveth so, But to one the sweet voice calleth, `Arise, and let us go; They wait to welcome thee, This night, at Home, with Me.'"

SELWICK HALL, MARCH THE II. Never, methinks, saw I any so changed as our _Milly_ by the illness and death of poor _Blanche_. From being the merriest of all us, methinks she is b...

"So I go on, not knowing-- I would not, if I might. I would rather walk in the dark with God Than go alone in the light: I would rather walk with Him by faith Than go alone by s...

SELWICK HALL, APRIL YE SECOND. Some ten years gone, when I was tarrying hither, I had set round my waist a leather thong, at the other end whereof was a very small damsel, by na...