Giving Surpassing Getting

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As if the world would spin

on the axis of his mind 

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Giving

Surpassing getting

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Compassion demonstrating

its truly chivalrous character

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And the act is worthy

Of art

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To wonder its way

through the centuries.

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St. Francis Gives His Cloak to a Knight – Giotto

• The Flowering of the Poverello