Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in
homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the
stranger.
I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forget that
there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.
Through birth and death, in this world or in others, wherever thou leadest me it
is thou, the same, the one companion of my endless life who
ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.
When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me
my prayer that I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one in the play of
many.