June 16
Companions of the Way (Morning)Having your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace.
IN the woods, A lone Enthusiast, and among the fields, . . Spontaneously had his affections thriven Amid the bounties of the year, the peace And liberty of Nature; there he kept In solitude and solitary thought His mind in a just equipoise of love. Serene it was, unclouded by the cares Of ordinary life; unvexed, unwarped By partial bondage. In his steady course No piteous revolutions had he felt, No wild varieties of joy and grief. Unoccupied by sorrow of its own, His heart lay open; and, by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy with man, he was alive To all that was enjoyed where'er he went, And all that was endured.
WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH
A CHARACTER