218 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XI 



petty personal controversies, and of toleration for every- 

 thing but lying ; to be indifferent as to whether the work 

 is recognised as mine or not, so long as it is done : are 

 these my aims? 1860 will show. 



Willst du dir ein hiibscli Leben zinimem, 

 Musst dich ans Vergangenc nicht bekiimmern ; 

 Und ware dir auch was Verloren, 

 Musst immer thun wie neugeboren. 

 Was jeder Tag will, sollst du fragen ; 

 Was jeder Tag will, wird er sagen. 

 Musst dich an eigenem Thun ergbtzen ; 

 Was andere thun, das wirst du schatzeii. 

 Besonders_keinen Menschen hassen 

 Und das Ubrige Gott iiberlassen. 1 



Half-past ten at night. 



Waiting for my child. I seem to fancy it the pledge 

 that all these things shall be. 



Born five minutes before twelve. Thank God. New 

 Year's Day, 1857. 



September 20, 1860. 



And the same child, our Noel, our first-born, after 

 being for nearly four years our delight and our joy, was 

 carried off by scarlet fever in forty-eight hours. This day 

 week he and I had a great romp together. On Friday 

 his restless head, with its bright blue eyes and tangled 

 golden hair, tossed all day upon his pillow. On Saturday 

 night the fifteenth, I carried him here into my study, and 



Wilt shape a noble life ? Then cast 

 No backward glances to the past. 

 And what if something still be lost ? 

 Act as new-born in all thou dost. 

 What each day wills, that shalt thou ask ; 

 Each day will tell its proper task ; 

 What others do, that shalt thou prize, 

 In thine own work thy guerdon lies. 

 This above all : hate none. The rest - 

 Leave it to God. He knoweth best. 



