Give me the supreme courage of love, this is my prayer - the
courage to speak, to do, to suffer at Your will, to leave all
things or be left alone.
Strengthen me on errands of
danger, honor me with pain, and help me climb to that
difficult mood that sacrifices daily to You.
Give me the supreme
confidence of love, this is my prayer - the confidence that
belongs to life in death, to victory in defeat, to the power
hidden in the frailest beauty, to that dignity in pain which
accepts hurt but disdains to return it.
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941)