The Vigil-at-Arms

The Vigil-at-Arms

KEEP holy watch with silence, prayer, and fastingTill morning break, and all the bugles play;Unto the One aware from everlastingDear are the winners: thou art more than they.Forth from this peace on manhood’s way thou goest,Flushed with resolve, and radiant in mail;Blessing supreme for men unborn thou sowest,O knight elect! O soul ordained to fail!

KEEP holy watch with silence, prayer, and fastingTill morning break, and all the bugles play;Unto the One aware from everlastingDear are the winners: thou art more than they.Forth from this peace on manhood’s way thou goest,Flushed with resolve, and radiant in mail;Blessing supreme for men unborn thou sowest,O knight elect! O soul ordained to fail!

KEEP holy watch with silence, prayer, and fastingTill morning break, and all the bugles play;Unto the One aware from everlastingDear are the winners: thou art more than they.

KEEP holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting

Till morning break, and all the bugles play;

Unto the One aware from everlasting

Dear are the winners: thou art more than they.

Forth from this peace on manhood’s way thou goest,Flushed with resolve, and radiant in mail;Blessing supreme for men unborn thou sowest,O knight elect! O soul ordained to fail!

Forth from this peace on manhood’s way thou goest,

Flushed with resolve, and radiant in mail;

Blessing supreme for men unborn thou sowest,

O knight elect! O soul ordained to fail!


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