"Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew, Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate; No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue; Be the proud captain still of thine own fate!"
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James Benjamin Kenyon
1858 – 1924
James Benjamin Kenyon (1858–1924) was an American clergyman and poet. He was born in Frankfort, New York. He entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1878, and subsequently became pastor of a church at Watertown, New York. Some of his volumes of poetry are In Realms of Gold (1887), At the Gate of Dreams (1892), An Oaten Pipe (1895).
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