When days run long and your body protests movement, you remember your oath.
Loyalty undying
Imperfect, but always trying
A knight endures.
Facing opposition
In whatever condition
A knight persists.
His honor at stake
He will not break.
A knight continues.
Never will he drop
nor fear will stop
A knight's pursuit.
As you repeat these words in your head, your body once again falls into the practiced movement of the sword dance, Persevera. It is tiring, and though you are already sweating everywhere imaginable, you endure. You perservere. You continue, and refuse to stop.
You know from sad experience what happens to a knight who breaks his oath...