Busy in School—Miss Carter rode out with her Dady and Mama to the County Court[80]—Writing at my Sermons.
[Poem Inserted in Journal]
Who knows what heaven may have in view?
What yet remains for me to do?
But knowlege here might give me grief.
Instead of pleasure and relief;
I therefore yield and peaceful wait
On Providence to rule my fate;
Nor if it long 'til' I must fly
Unbodied to my judge on high
Why need I then disturb my mind?
Why not lye humble and resign'd?—
Yet tho' 'tis wrong for me to try
Into these mysteries to pry
Sure I may sit and simply sing
(I dare not strike a lofty string)
The various scenes through which I've past
I may be now acting my last;
Here in Virginia, far from friends
Except those Heaven in pity sends!
Novr 23d 1773.
Wednesday 24.
Busy in School.
Thursday 25.
Rode this morning to Richmond Court-house,[81] where two Horses run for a purse of 500 Pounds; besides small Betts almost enumerable.
One of the Horses belonged to Colonel John Taylor,[82] and is called Yorick—The other to Dr. Flood,[83] and is called Gift—The Assembly was remarkably numerous; beyond my expectation and exceeding polite in general.