September 4
Companions of the Way (Evening)I will write upon him my new name.
THOU art gone away from earth, And place with those doth claim, The children of the Second Birth, Whom the world could not tame.
And with that small transfigured band, Whom many a different way Conducted to their common land, Thou learnst to think as they.
Christian and Pagan, King and Slave, Soldier and Anchorite, Distinctions we esteem so grave Are nothing in thy sight.
They do not ask, who pined unseen, Who was on action hurled, Whose one bond is, that all have been Unspotted from the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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STRENGTH