Keep holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting <br />Till morning break, and all the bugles play; <br />Unto the One aware from everlasting <br />Dear are the winners: thou art more than they. <br /> <br />Forth from this peace on manhood's way thou goest, <br />Flushed with resolve, and radiant in mail; <br />Blessing supreme for men unborn thou sowest, <br />O knight elect! O soul ordained to fail!<br /><br />Louise Imogen Guiney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-vigil-at-arms/
