August 16

Let us put on the armour of light.

WHO is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be?

—It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought

Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought

Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought:

Whose high endeavours are an inward light

That makes the path before him always bright.

Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,

Or mild concerns of ordinary life,

A constant influence, a peculiar grace;

But who, if he be called upon to face

Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined

Great issues, good or bad for human kind,

Is happy as a lover; and attired

With sudden brightness, like a man inspired;

And through the heat of conflict, keeps the law

In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

WILLIAM WORDS- WORTH

This is the happy Warrior; this is he

Whom every man in arms would wish to be.

A CHARACTER

16 Aug. Evening]

O ben creato spirito, ch'ai rai Di vita eterna la dolcezza senti, Che, non gustata, non s'intende mai.

IF we throw ourselves wholeheartedly into the service of such things as are true, noble, pure, just, and of good report, we shall have our treasure in Heaven, where the patterns of these things eternally dwell; we shall draw our life-breath in an atmosphere which no taint of corruption and decay can ever infect: our life will be hid with Christ in God, where the death of the body is seen to be a thing indifferent, or rather the gate into a fuller, richer life; we shall realise the philosophic ideal of being "eternal in the midst of time," without giving up W. R. the hope of a more blessed future. INGE

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