May 31st 1858

May 31^st 1858 Henrietta Monday

The daylight has dawned and faded and I have again sit me down to wrote “----- Forget” yet I cannot add “et non forget” for time surely seemes to be a winged thing? which we cannot hold. I have been looking over my past writings tonight and I smile at my folly of a year ago. While I resolve to learn wisdom from the past to guide my future life yet still I wonder if in another year I will not be s—ling after this years folly. It is even thus we think we learn every year to be wiser than we were the last year yet I question if it would not be better if I were the unsuspecting girl of last. I know this has been a great change in me in one little short year, one year ago I gazed on everything through a rose tinted glass now I have learned to know things as they are! What has made this change the part? will tell. I have been tempted to tear out some of the leaves of my Diary, But have firmly resolved to let them remain as they are, truthfull and it is only myself I can blame. Lo they shall remain so that if I ever am tempted to fall into similar folly a glance over these pages will save me.