DECEMBER 10 
Naught is more honourable to a knight. 
Nor better doth beseem brave chivalry, 
Than to defend the feeble in their right, 
And wrong redress in such as wend awry. 
...- DECEMBER 17 - 
Willow (Weeping)- Mourning . 
Oh! Lady, twine no wreath for me 
Or twine it of the cypress tree! 
Too lively glow the lilies light, 
The varnished holly’s all too bright; 
The may-flower and the eglantine 
May shade a brow less sad than mine j 
But, Lady, twine no wreath for me, 
Or weave it of the cypress tree. 
(Sir y /. JScott. 
DECEMBER 18 
Willow (Herb) 
Pretension. 
Nothing resting in its own completeness 
Can have worth or beauty : but alone 
Because it leads and tends to farther sweetness 
Fuller, higher, deeper than its own. 
is only bright when it proceedeth 
'ard a truer, deeper life above; 
nan love is sweetest when it leadeth 
a more divine and perfect love. 
Adelaide ■P ROCTE R- 
250 
