JimL's Journal

I finished reading Knights Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and this stanza really moved me:

'Then it is wisdom, as it seems to me,

To make virtue of necessity,

Take in good part what we may not eschew,

Especally whatever things are due

To all of us; his is a foolish soul

That's rebel against Him who guides the whole,

And it is honor to a man whose hour

Strike in his day of excellence and flower,

When he is certain of his own good name

And never known in any act of shame

And gladden should a friend be of his death

When there is honour in his yielded breath.'

May I live each day in honor and without shame and truly strive for excellence.