March 23
Companions of the Way (Morning)When I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have shewed Thy strength unto this generation.
GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"
Therefore I summon age
To grant youth's heritage,
Life's struggle having so far reached its term:
Thence shall I pass, approved
A man, for aye removed
From the developed brute; a God, though in the germ.
And I shall thereupon
Take rest, ere I be gone
Once more on my adventure brave and new:
Fearless and unperplexed,
When I wage battle next,
ROBERT
BROWNING
What weapons to select, what armour to indue.
OLD AGE