a bad tramp stamp is patient, a bad tramp stamp is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. a bad tramp stamp does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
a bad tramp stamp never fails. but where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. for we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. when I was an intelligent girl, I talked like an intelligent girl, I thought like an intelligent girl, I reasoned like an intelligent girl. when I became a girl with a bad tramp stamps, I put intelligent girlish ways behind me. now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
and now these three remain: faith, hope and a bad tramp stamp. but the greatest of these is a bad tramp stamp.
