Page:Ethel Churchill 2.pdf/57

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
ETHEL CHURCHILL.
55

enabling us to get through our weary existence. The intellect cannot sustain its sunshine flight long; the flagging wing drops to the earth. Pleasure palls, and idleness is

"Many gathered miseries in one name;"

but business gets over the hours without counting them. It may be very tired at the end, still it has brought the day to a close sooner than any thing else.